China
The belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods
The Mandate of Heaven
Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
pax mongolia
Ruler of Mali (r.1312-1337 CE) who made a hajj to Mecca; on the way there, he spread enormous amounts of gold showing the wealth of Mali; on the way back, he brought back education and Islamic culture. He was the richest person in history who spent a lot of his money and created stereotypes about Africa.
Mansa Musa
the holiest city of Islam; Muhammad's birthplace
Mecca
disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population
Bubonic Plague
Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household.
Foor binding
Dynasty in China set up by the Mongols under the leadership of Kublai Khan, replaced the Song (1279-1368)
Yuan Dynasty
This is primarily a Christian empire that built large churches to separate from Orthodox and Catholic Church and developed independently from them.
Ethopia
official language of Pakistan, mixed grammatical patterns of Hindi with the vocabulary of Arabic and some elements of Farsi
Urdo
The self-sufficient fiefs with everyone living on them
Manors
This dynasty used ideas of Confucianism to maintain its ideas of FILIAL PIETY which is the duty of family members to subordinate their needs and desires to those of the male head of the family or even its ruler.
Song Dynasty
one of several separate territories into which Genghis Khan's empire was split, each under the rule of one of his sons
Khanate
The founder of this country was likely a Muslim and used his connections to establish trade relationships with North African and Arab merchants.
Mali
First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus, the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India.
Umayyad Caliphate
Association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their economic interests. Trained people to specialize in a specific job. they formed within cities to set standards and prices on goods.
Guilds
Officials/anyone (men) can obtain high positions by taking this which are tests that qualifies someone to get an appointment in the bureaucracy
Civil Service Exam
Also known as Temujin; he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history.
Genghis Khan
The name means "dwellings" in Bantu. They made their houses of stone. Prospered on agriculture, grazing, trade, and gold.
Zimbabwe
The stone cubical structure in the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Mecca, believed to have been built by Abraham and regarded by Muslims as the sacred center of the earth
Ka'ba
A period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378-1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office
Great Schism
A quick-maturing drought resistant rice that can allow two harvests, of sixty days each in one growing season
Champa Rice
Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam.
Golden Horde
Connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. Zimbabwe was tied in through Swahili city states and prospered through its rich gold field and taxes on it.
Indian Ocean Trade
Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
The controversy that arose when Henry IV (Holy Roman Empire) tried to name men to church offices. Pope Gregory VII excommunicated him for this act and reaffirmed the political power of the Catholic Church.
Investiture