Song Dynasty
The scholar gentry were appointed officials who ran this style of government in China
What is bureaucracy?
The Abbasid Caliphate was known for advances in algebra and medicine mostly at_________________of Wisdom.
What is the Baghdad House of Wisdom?
This dynasty of Korean kings prevented Chinese conquest of peninsula
What is the Silla Dynasty?
A country that is subordinate to a more powerful neighbor
What is a tributary state?
A system of political organization (as in Europe during the Middle Ages) in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service to receive protection and land in return.
What is feudalism?
This fast growing rice greatly increased China's population and allowed farmers start to diversify and grow more crops
What is Champa rice?
This group was located in Egypt and recruited slaves to serve as soldiers and government officials
What is Mamluks?
This Japanese period (794-1185) was known for great cultural advancements
What is the Heian Period?
This empire's main form of government was the city-state- each ruled by a king and consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
What is the Mayan Empire?
Workers bound to the land by contract with the nobles.
What are serfs?
This idea teaches that children are to obey parents and put family before personal interests
What is filial piety?
This group of missionaries helped to spread Islam by merging it with other ideas/ beliefs
What is Sufism?
This kingdom located in present day India controlled the shipping hub from the Indian Ocean through China
What is the Srivijaya Kingdom?
These floating gardens were built to increase the amount of space for food production
What is chinampas?
This plague kills close to half of the population & leads to a loss of skilled labor
What is the Black Death?
This philosophy attempted to merge basic elements of Confucianism and Buddhism
What is Neo-Confucianism?
This group of Muslims ruled Spain and North Africa
What is Moors?
Known as Axum--the Christian kingdom. Rulers here legitimated their position by tracing their ancestry to Jesus.
What is Ethiopia?
This empire believed that since the gods sacrificed themselves to save the world, so people must be sacrificed to repay--believed heavily in human sacrifice
What is the Aztec Empire?
An increase in literacy was caused by the improvement of this invention by Johann Gutenberg
What is the printing press?
What are Junk ships?
This movement in India focused on developing a strong attachment to a particular deity (god)rather than study texts or performing rituals
What is the Bhakti Movement?
This kingdom in Africa was connected by kinship ties, no central authority, series of city states, benefitted from Trans-Saharan trade
What is the Hausa Kingdom?
An achievement of the Inca was a system of knotted strings that were used to record numerical information
What is quipu?
The Byzantine Empire collapses and Europeans must find new ways to access Silk Road because this empire comes to power in 1453
Who are the Ottoman Turks?