East Asia
The 1,100-mile waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. Its revival helped lead to the commercialization of Song China
The Grand Canal
TRUE or FALSE: The Abbasid Caliphate was extremely centralized, unified, and politically stable between 1200 and 1450.
False
This trade route served as an important role in history, and has been a key factor in East-West exchanges.
Indian Ocean Trade Network
Floating gardens constructed along lake shores by the Mexica/Aztecs to increase agricultural yields.
Chinampas
What are the two natural resources that allowed Africa to prosper during the period 1200-1450?
Gold
Salt
Ivory
A Chinese Philosophy that shows the way to ensure a stable government, rigid hierarchy, filial piety, and an orderly society in the present world and stresses a moral code of conduct.
Confucianism
What is one thing that Islam, Christianity, and Judaism have in common?
Same Holy Lands, People of the Book, Monotheistic- believe in the same God
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Controlled an area of northern India.
Dehli Sultanate
A coerced, agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate
Serf
A long established trade route that led to the transit of goods between West Africa, the northern Arab, and European worlds. Goods included precious metals, such as gold, as well as slaves.
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
Quick-maturing agricultural development that can allow two harvests in one growing season; led to increased populations in Song Dynasty China. Originally introduced via trade routes to Vietnam from India, and later to China
Champa Rice
Large Islamic-based Library and learning center in Baghdad. Focus of conversion of Greek and Roman classics and Indian learning into Arabic. Helped preserve knowledge.
House of Wisdom
The highly traded and delicious product allowed for the rise of many Southeast Asian states (such as Srivijaya, Khmer, and Majapahit)
Spices
This massive roadway system built by slaves and captive labor in the Inca empire. 25,000 miles of roads that assissted the gov't and military and later the Spanish.
Carpa Nan
A relation or network between two or more people that is based on common ancestry or marriage. This system greatly influenced indigenous African political practices.
Kin-based networks
A meritocratic practice that Chinese bureaucrats needed to pass to serve in state, based on Confucian concepts
Civil Service Exam
An Islamic mystical tradition that desired a personal union with God-divine love through intuition rather than through rational deduction and study of the Shari'a.
Sufism
An immensely popular development in Hinduism, advocating intense devotion toward a particular deity. Also did not discriminate women.
Bhakti Movement
An economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming estates where lords and serfs shared the land.
Manorialism
A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E. Known for its cone-shaped towers, large places, large walls, and stone homes.
Great Zimbabwe
What is one thing that Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared in common during the period 1200-1450?
All were culturally influenced by China.
Name TWO groups who posed a challenge to the Abbasid Caliphate AND where did they come from?
Mamluks from Egypt
Seljuk Turks from Central Asia
Crusaders from Europe
Mongols from China
What are two similarities between the spread of Islam and Buddhism?
Spread along trade routes
Challenged the caste system
More rights for women
An economic system in Inca society where people paid taxes through mandatory public service
Mit'a system
What historical group is most responsible for the spread of Islam in Africa?
Muslim Merchants