Global Tapestry
Quick-maturing grain that can allow two harvests in one growing season.
Champa Rice
This place offered rest and resupply for merchants and their animals.
caravanserai
system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other luxury trade goods; known for spreading religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam as well as technological transfers (gunpowder, paper, the compass from China to the West) and diseases like the Bubonic plague
Silk Roads
This precious metal was a common medium of exchange in the Indian Ocean trade network
gold
class of salaried warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble called a daimyo (who in turned pledged loyalty to a shogun) in return for land or rice payments
samurai
Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
Showing respect to one's elders
Filial Piety
This system of currency, used in China during the Tang and Song Dynasties, helped facilitate trade along the Silk Roads by providing a lightweight alternative to coinage.
Paper money
trade routes across the Sahara Desert; traded gold, enslaved peoples, ivory and salt; camels, camel caravans, and camel saddles were crucial in the development of these trade networks; facilitated the spread of Islam and linked West Africa to Mecca for participation in the hajj
trans-Saharan trade
the idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.
Divine Right
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Controled a small area of northern India and was centered in Delhi.
Delhi Sultanate
the official split between the Roman Catholic and Byzantine churches that occurred in 1054
Great Schism
Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing direction
magnetic compass
This system of maritime trade connected East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Southeast Asia, facilitating the spread of goods, ideas, and religions like Islam.
Indian Ocean trade network
This administrative unit in the Ottoman Empire, often led by a religious or ethnic leader, allowed certain groups autonomy to govern themselves under imperial oversight.
millet
An empire formed by Turkish and Persian Sunnis, lasting from 1037 to 1194 A.D.
Seljuk Empire
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.
Great Zimbabwe
thin, beautiful pottery invented in China; highly desired luxury good traded along the Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade networks
Porcelain
large flat-bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel and participation in the tribute system
junk ship
a large, multi-ethnic state controlled by a single ruler or dynasty
Land Based Empire
The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. .
Grand Canal in China
Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many as 25,000 Native Americans
Cahokia
seasonal wind in India
monsoon winds
This religion spread extensively along the Silk Roads, transforming as it entered China and incorporating local Daoist and Confucian ideas.
Buddhism
This empire, known for its efficient use of gunpowder weapons, ruled much of South Asia
Mughal