East Asia
Rulers of the Song Dynasty used ______ to appoint people to positions within the Imperial Bureaucracy.
What is the Imperial Exam/Civil Service Exam
What three belief systems dominated South/SE Asia?
What is Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
Identify one advancement from "Dar al-Islam in the field of Mathematics
What is Algebra , Trigonometry
This person was the King of Mali
Who is Mansa Musa
Established by European nobles in an attempt to protect their lands and maintain order during a time of weak central power and frequent invasions, Political and Social Order
What is Feudalism
Kingdom in Modern Day Mexico, Warfare was their way of life
What is the Aztecs
What agricultural innovation benefited East Asia?
What is Champa Rice
This was the most influential Sultanate in South Asia during this period
What is the Delhi Sultanate
____ means "House fo Islam", parts of the world where Islam was a dominant force
What is Dar al-Islam
This location was the center of Islamic scholarship under several African Empires
What is Timbuktu
Killed a third of the European population; disrupted trade
What is the Black Death, Bubonic Plague
Small, stationary, artificial ilands built on freshwater lakes for agricultural purposes
What is Chinampas
Emperor Hongwu, established this dynasty following the Yuan Dynasty, 1368, goal was to remove all signs of Mongol Rule
What is the Ming Dynasty
Enormous Buddhist Temple in Northern Cambodia, built as a Hindu temple under the Khmer Empire
What is Angkor Wat
Disputes over the rightful caliph had plagued the Muslim world since Muhammad’s death, even resulting in a violent religious split between the ___________
What is the Sunni v Shia Split
From 1270 AD until 1974, the ________ governed the Ethiopian Empire; the empires of Ethiopia were, and remain, largely Christian with a sizable Islamic minority
What is the Solomonic Dynasty
Feudal European states were strictly bound to the theological and political powers of the _____
What is the Catholic Church
The Empire itself flourished under rulers such as _______ until the introduction of European diseases in the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as internal power disputes & rebellions from conquered Mesoamericans
Who is Montezuma II
Combining rational thought with more abstract ideas of Daoism & Buddhism, Focus on ethics rather than mysteries of God and Nature
What is Neo-Confucisnism
______ was a vast, dominant maritime Indonesian kingdom based on the island of Sumatra, which influenced much of Southeast Asia
What is Srivijaya Empire
Substantial tax payable to the Rashidun Caliphate that could be avoided upon conversion to Islam
What is the Jizya Tax
This person was a Moroccan Islamic Travler, his journey was well documented
Who is Ibn Battuta
Military campaigns taken by European Christians of the 11th-14th centuries to take over the Holy Land and convert Muslims and non-Chrisitians to Christianity
What is the Crusades
The Inca Empire was home to a wealthy imperial capital city of _______ which housed a massive Temple to the ______
What is Cusco & Sun King
The Song Dynasty lost the _____ and their rule fo China was ended by the invasion of the Mongol Empire
What is the Mandate of Heaven
This empire was well known for the repulsion of the Mongols under the Yuan Dynasty defeating Kublai Khan’s invasion several times in the 13th century
What is the Majapahit Empire
These merchants settled along trading towns, forming ____________, and spreading Islam throughout the Indian Ocean region
What is Diasporic Communities
Nomadic people crossing the desert on camels, sometimes in caraverserai's
Who is the Berbers
A confederation of guilds and market towns in Northern Europe from 1358-1800
What is the Hanseatic League
Known as the _______, the Inca administered a state-run work program that organized the Inca and their conquered peoples into specific labor forces
What is the Mit'a System