Empires and States
This Chinese dynasty maintained power through the Civil Service Exam and presided over a golden age of commercialization.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This revival of Confucian thought in Song China emphasized filial piety and social hierarchy, and led to increased restrictions on women.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
Mali's elite adopted Islam largely to strengthen trade relations with merchants from this broader region.
What is the Middle East (Dar al-Islam)?
In the Inca Empire, conquered peoples were required to provide labor on state farms, roads, or military projects through this system.
What is the Mit'a System?
The introduction of this drought-resistant rice strain from Vietnam allowed the Song Dynasty to have multiple harvests per year, causing a population explosion.
What is champa rice?
This West African empire controlled the gold-salt trade and reached its height under Mansa Musa in the early 1300s.
What is the Mali Empire?
This Hindu movement emphasized emotional devotion to a single god and appealed to lower castes and women by challenging traditional hierarchies.
What is the Bhakti Movement?
This mandatory system required neighboring states like Korea, Japan, and Vietnam to pay money or goods to the Chinese Emperor in exchange for trade access.
What is the tribute system?
In African kin-based societies, this was the primary marker of wealth and social status, not land ownership.
What is enslaved labor?
The Crusades ultimately failed militarily but exposed Europe to one of these things, which directly sparked the Renaissance.
What is the advanced trade, wealth, and preserved classical knowledge of the Islamic world?
This empire is known for it's chinampas (floating gardens), it's systems of tributes, and it's sacrificial religion
What is the Aztec Empire?
This mystical form of Islam spread rapidly because its missionaries adapted to local cultures rather than imposing strict doctrine.
What is Sufism?
The Swahili language developed as a hybrid of Bantu and Arabic, reflecting the blending of cultures along this trade network.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
This type of slavery, where people became enslaved to repay a debt, was theoretically temporary but many never regained their freedom
What is debt bondage?
This elite practice in Song China restricted women's mobility, signified social status, and is an example of how Neo-Confucianism increased restrictions on women.
What is footbinding?
This East African state built massive stone structures, dominated the gold trade, and notably refused to convert to Islam.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
This African kingdom was a unique "island of Christianity" surrounded by Islamic states, known for its rock-hewn churches.
What is the Ethiopian Kingdom?
The Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt prospered specifically through trade in these two commodities.
What is cotton and sugar?
The Aztec Empire was governed through this decentralized system where conquered states paid goods and labor but kept their local rulers in place.
What is the tribute system?
Unlike their counterparts in Mesoamerica, the Inca Empire's religious practices were notably different in this way.
What is limited human sacrifice?
This empire was responsible for establishing Muslim political rule in northern India and heavily populated Hindu populations.
What is the Delhi Sultnate?
These are the three varieties of Buddhism that spread across Asia after arriving via the Silk Roads from India.
What are Theravada, Mahayana, and Tibetan Buddhism?
Although the Crusades failed militarily, they sparked this movement in European civilization by exposing Europe to Islamic wealth, knowledge, and Greco-Roman classics?
What is the Renaissance?
In Japanese feudalism, these land-owning aristocrats wielded significantly more independent power than their equivalent in European feudalism.
What is the daimyo?
Angkor Wat and the Qutub Minar are both examples of this broader historical process, where two competing belief systems blended together through cultural contact.
What is syncretism (or cultural blending)?