Definitions
The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.
What is commerce?
The climate of inner Eurasia and outer Eurasia, respectively.
What is dry (inner) and well-watered (outer)?
A religion that includes an emphasis on hierarchy and a caste-system?
What is Hinduism?
The leader of the Mongol empire.
Who is Genghis Khan (Aka Chinggis Khan)?
Honoring parents and ancestors as training for reverence to the emperor and/or state.
What is filial piety?
The people that became traders within inner Eurasia.
What are nomadic people?
The ideology that merchants generally preferred over Hinduism.
What is Buddhism?
Positive policy of the Mongols in conquered areas.
What is religious toleration?
A contract or agreement that Yahweh made with his chosen people.
What is a covenant?
The wages that were available after the Black Death because there were fewer people to work.
What are better wages?
The belief system that became the official ideology of the Chinese state.
What is confucianism?
Systems of organization that the Mongols used in conquered areas.
What is census-taking? What is relay-communication?
People who travel without a permanent home (usually herding animals).
Who are nomadic or pastoral people?
The weather pattern that impacted when and how the Sea Roads were used.
What are monsoons?
The style of government that Daoism emphasizes/prefers.
What is limited-government?
What is Beijing?
The way of nature.
What is Dao?
The years that the Black Death occurred.
What is 1346 to 1348?
The idea that the correct condition for China is one of political unity.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A period of peace and stabilization that allowed trade, ideologies, and technologies to be exchanged across Eurasia.
What is Pax Mongolica?