State Building
This Chinese dynasty revived Confucian bureaucracy after the fall of the Tang Dynasty.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This system allowed Chinese bureaucrats to be chosen based on merit.
What is the civil service exam?
This type of traveler, like Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo, helped spread culture and ideas along trade routes.
What is a merchant or traveler/explorer?
The Inca Empire was located along this mountain range in South America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
This branch of Buddhism was dominant in China and emphasized compassion and devotion.
What is Mahayana Buddhism?
The Delhi Sultanate established Islamic rule in this South Asian region.
What is India?
What food increased production and population growth?
Champa rice
The name of locations that were important along this route because they provided rest and resupply for travelers and merchants.
Caravanserai
This empire, centered in modern-day Mexico, was built through military conquest and tribute.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This Islamic dynasty ruled from Baghdad and oversaw a golden age of science and learning.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This empire in West Africa grew wealthy by taxing trans-Saharan trade routes.
What is the Mali Empire?
What innovations came out of China during this period?
Paper, Silk and Porcelain
The Silk Roads were most secure under this powerful nomadic empire.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Both the Inca and Aztec practiced this religious tradition to appease the gods.
What is human sacrifice?
Hinduism and Islam blended in South Asia to create this new religion.
What is Sikhism?
Japan during this period was fragmented under regional warlords called daimyo. Europe was also fragmented and continued under this system.
What is the the feudal era/feudalism?
This Confucian revival in Song China emphasized filial piety and social harmony.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
This Chinese good was so valuable that it gave the trade route its name.
What is silk?
The Aztec ruled through a system that demanded goods and labor from conquered people, called this.
What is the tribute system?
The spread of Islam into West Africa occurred primarily through this form of exchange.
What is trade or commercial exchange?
This was a series of religious military campaigns by Europeans to recapture land in the Middle East.
What is the Crusades?
This classical empire provided knowledge that Islamic and European scholars used to develop innovations in math, science and astronomy.
Who were the Greeks?
This technology improved long-distance trade by helping with navigation across deserts and steppes.
What is the camel saddle or compass
This religion dominated early civilizations including the Inca and Aztec.
What is polytheism?
In East Asia, Neo-Confucianism combined Confucianism with elements of these two belief systems.
What are Buddhism and Daoism?