Islam
Cities and Migration
Trade
Cross Cultural Exchanges
Politics and Empires
100
Who is the founder of Islam?
Who is Muhammad?
100
What are three purposes of cities?
What is religious/cultural rituals, governmental purposes and trade?
100
Camels were a main mode of transportation along these two trade routes
What is Trans Saharan and Silk Roads?
100
What is a diasporic community?
What is foreigners living in lands away from their homeland?
100
Which group created the largest land empire in the world?
What is the mongols?
200
What are the five pillars?
What is alms, creed, fasting, pilgrimage, prayer?
200
What are two reasons cities revived during this period?
What is The end of invasions The availability of safe and reliable transport. The rise of commerce and the warmer temperatures between 800-1300. Increased agricultural productivity and subsequent rising population. Greater availability of labor.
200
The astrolabe was technology used along these two trade routes
What is Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Lanes?
200
What did Ibn Battuta and Xuanzang have in common?
What is both are interregional travelers?
200
This empire was what was left over after the fall of Rome, had its capital at Constantinople and were conquered by the Muslims
What is Byzantine Empire?
300
What are the three ways Islam spread across the world?
What is merchants, missionaries and warfare?
300
What are three languages that spread due to migrations?
What is Swahili, Turkic, Arabic?
300
These two things led to an increased volume of trade, according to your notes
What is transportation technologies and commercial practices?
300
What are two things the Chinese were responsible for creating that were introduced to the rest of Afro-Eurasia?
What is gunpowder, printing, compass and papermaking?
300
The city states of this peninsula dominate trade in the Mediterranean starting in the 1200s
What is Italy?
400
What are two scientific or technological contributions the Muslims made?
What is mathematics, greek philosophy and culture, etc.?
400
Which group of people was primarily responsible for transplanting crops and animals in Oceania?
What is the Polynesians?
400
What are three ways commercial growth was facilitated?
What is state practices, trading organizations and state sponsored commercial organizations?
400
What three new foods were adopted in populated areas?
What is 1. Bananas in Africa- probably brought to Africa by the Malay people at least a couple thousand years ago. 2. New rice varieties in East Asia- (see Champa Rice in later notes) 3. Spread of Cotton, sugar, and citrus throughout Dar-al-Islam and the Mediterranean basin- The western portion of the Islamic world benefited from crops brought over from India and the east which included: rice, sugarcane, fruits such as citrus.
400
Give two of the five characteristics of economic reforms the Tang and the Song made.
What is increasing agricultural production, increasing population, urbanization, technological innovation and financial inventions?
500
Who are the Sufis and what is their importance?
What are mystic Muslims and they are responsible for spreading Islam to SE Asia?
500
The migrations of people depended on two things. What were they?
What is technological adaptations and environmental knowledge?
500
What are two examples of new credit or monetization?
What is saqq and banking houses?
500
What was the social effect of the plague in Europe?
What is it gave the serfs more power?
500
This society was organized into city states, which the city state of Chichen Itza dominated
What is the Maya?