Africa
The most widely exchanged trade items in Western Africa were:
What is gold and salt
Mansa Musa's wealth increased considerably when he conquered the city of:
What is Timbuktu
A commoner who was bound to his lord's land.
What is a serf
What was the main type of monasticism in Europe during this time?
What is Benedictine
Most buildings in medieval Europe were built out of _________. The most significant buildings were instead built out of stone, and they usually served this purpose: _____________.
Wood // Churches, cathedrals, keeps
Which empire was established by Sonni Ali and expanded by Askia Muhammad?
Songhai
What was the most useful advancement for rulers and traders that Islam brought into Africa?
Arabic language
Why were many medieval European cities former Roman colonies? Identify two reasons.
1) Ideal locations (defense, food, water, etc.)
2) Roman roads and infrastructure (aqueducts) connected them
The life of a monk revolved around which two activities?
What is prayer and labor?
Vikings, Magyars, Saracens (Arabs)
Name three uses for salt
What is 1) preserves food 2) hydrates and replaces electrolytes 3) flavor 4) antiseptic
What event occurs in 1307?
Mansa Musa begins his rule.
While trade in the southern half of Europe centered around Northern Italian cities, trade in northern Europe was focused around __________, and their main trade export was ___________.
Flanders // Wool
Daily Double: What is the full name of The Simpsons character related to this question?
The tension between King Henry II of England and Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was about this.
Priests being subjected to the jurisdiction of royal courts.
In Northern Africa, this ethnic group commanded most of the Trans-Saharan trade routes.
Berbers
Daily Double: What resource needed to be constantly resupplied because of the tsetse fly?
Identify three ways that Mansa Musa encouraged his people to convert to Islam
What is 1) built nice mosques for worship 2) brought scholars to teach his people 3) distributed copies of Quran
What was the motive of Mansa Musa's extravagance on his hajj?
Showed off wealth of Mali, attracted scholars and converts.
Name of the special rooms where monks copied manuscripts during Carolingian Renaissance
What is scriptoria
What were the five important early Christian cities?
What is Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria.
The head of the Christian church, also called the Pope, also holds this title.
What is the Archbishop of Rome?
Which trade goods were the most useful for political rulers seeking to expand territory in sub-Saharan West Africa?
Iron weapons and horses.
The term that means the blending of several different cultures, religions or schools of thought.
Syncretism
What European elements were fused together with the coronation of Charlemagne?
What is Germanic people, Roman legacy and Catholic church
Daily Double: What vocab term could be used to describe this fusion?
Describe how an interdict established papal power over monarchs: (NEED to have a certain vocabulary word!)
An interdict forbid priests from performing sacraments and made people upset at their monarch for disagreeing with the pope.
This date is oftentimes referred to as the "birthdate of Europe"
What is December 25, 800.