Southernization
What was Southernization?
The diffusion of Southern Asia's ideas and supplies to the rest of Europe.
What were the Indo-Europeans also known as?
Aryans.
The Austronesians came from where?
Southeast Asia and Oceania
Where did they migrate from?
West Africa (specifically Cameroon)
What is the silk road?
The Silk Road was a winding network of trade routes
What were some of the goods that became popular due to Southernization?
Cotton, textiles, silk, cinnamon, sugar.
What did they bring with them when they migrated?
Horses and chariots.
Who were the Austronesian migrates descendents of?
From people who had migrated from Yunan to Taiwan
Who did the Bantu assimilate with?
The forest dwellers in South and East Africa
When was the Silk Road active?
From 130 BCE-1453 CE.
How are Southernization and Westernization alike?
Both refer to the way cultural diffusion from a certain area vastly influenced the areas that came in contact with it.
Where did they migrate from?
Modern day Russia/ the grasslands North of the Caspian and Black sea
Who are descendent from the Austronesian people?
The Polynesian people
The Bantu brought what to the forest dwelling Africians?
Iron tools and agriculture.
Who famously recorded traveling across the silk road?
Marco Polo
Southernization produced great strides in terms of what kind of learning?
Math
What Indo-European language led into Latin happening?
Italic
Where did the Polynesian people settle?
The Islands of the pacific
How many ethnic groups were the Bantu supposedly made up of?
400
How long was the Silk Road?
5,000 miles
The Chinese combined who's knowledge to improve their mathematics?
India's
Modern English comes from which branch of originally Indo-European languages
Germanic
At times the movements of the Austronesian people were not clearly written down, how did historians figure out where they went when that occured?
They saw the roots of older language under what was spoken, and recognized it as what the immigrants would have spoken, evolved over time.
The Bantu were believed to move in four groups, what were these groups?
Central, Highland, Southern and Lake region
The silk road helped forge the way for what 3 empires?
Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid