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These floating gardens were essential in allowing the Aztecs to maintain such large cities.
What are chinampas?
This religion had deep influence on all aspects of European life.
What is Christianity?
What is Islam?
Trade was central to the Islamic world for this reason.
What is because Mohammed was a merchant?
This "religion" or belief was central to nearly every decision made by Chinese dynasties.
What is Confucianism?
South and Southeastern empires (and most empires) relied on this to generate wealth from 1200-1450.
What is trade?
This major city, home to bustling markets and floating gardens, was the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This disease spread through Europe, killing approx. 50% of the population and allowing peasants to barter for higher wages.
What is the Black Death?
These two trade goods were the primary exports of Trans-Saharan African states.
What are gold and salt?
This location was the center for knowledge in the Islamic world, responsible for translating much of the knowledge we have today.
What is the House of Wisdom / House of Baghdad?
This system, maintained by most Chinese dynasties, allowed for efficient and competent staffing of the government.
What is the civil service exam?
These two religions, stemming from South Asia, continue to be influential today.
What are Buddhism and Hinduism?
This is what allowed the Incas to build such expansive roads in their empire, granting them stronger control and communication networks.
What is the m'ita system?
This system of social organization led to political fragmentation with many different kings, vassals, and knights?
What is feudalism?
True or False: Most African empires had clear boundaries and strong, central governments.
False
This large Middle Eastern empire held power for over 400 years before starting to crumble in 1200
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This development in the Song Dynasty was the primary reason for their meteoric rise as an empire.
What are increased population growth / increased agricultural production / increased production of goods for trade?
This empire managed to maintain control over parts of South Asia despite being a different religion than most of its conquered peoples.
What is the Dehli Sultanate?
This InSPECT theme was MOST central to allowing the Aztec and Incans to sustain their massive empires.
What is Interactions between Humans and the Environment?
This movement in Europe rivalled the ideas of Christianity so embedded in European culture.
Daily Double
Answer the following MCQ in 1 minute.
This empire is credited with the official destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, despite the Caliphate's slow fall over a long span.
Who are the Mongols?
This system of writing in East Asia represents the way that some East Asian countries attempted to maintain independence from China.
What is hangul?
This early Southeast Asian empire relied on trade and its tactical location to grow incredibly rich.
What is the Srivajaya Empire?
This system set the Incans apart from most other empires of this time through record-keeping.
What are quipus?
The Europeans heavily relied on this social class for all agricultural labor.
Who are serfs?
This major difference between African Islamic practice and Arabic Islamic practice, pointed out by Ibn Battuta, shows how the African people held on to their beliefs while still adopting and blending new beliefs.
What is the freedom / intimacy of single women?
Identify three examples of Islamic empires located outside of the Middle East.
What are the Dehli Sultanate, Al-Andalus, Mali, Swahili City-States, Mamluk Sultanate?
Identify the main difference between Chinese and European labor systems.
What is Europeans relied on serf-based labor?
This religious temple in the Khmer empire represented the spread of this religion eastward from India (two answers).
What is Angkor Wat and Hinduism?