AP World 2.4-2.6 Flashcards
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Network?
a series of trade routes that connect North Africa and the Mediterranean world with interior of West Affrica and the rest of sub-saharan Africa
What two innovations and transportation technologies led to the beginning of the Trans-Saharan Trade Network?
Saddles and Caravanserai
What goods were traded across the Trans-Saharan trade network?
Gold, Kola nuts, horses, salt
What was the Mali empire?
grew because of the Trans-saharan trade network, already Islam, wealthy because of parcipitation in trans-saharan trade route and dar-al-islam, got even wealthier by taxing merchants, mostly traded gold
What was the Hajj?
islamic pilgramage to Mecca
How did Buddhism change through trade routes and why?
because in order to make Buddhist teachings intelligible to the chinese population, merchants and monks explored them in terms of Chinese Daosim (belief system indigenous to China)
What is Chinese Daoism?
a belief system indigenous to China
What is syncretism?
the blending of ideas/religious ideas
What is Hangzhou?
one of China’s most significant trading cities more urbanization
What is Baghdad and why did it decline?
capital of Islamic cultural and artistic achievement, mongols took them over, brought the Abbasid empire to its end
What is constantinople?
poltical and religiious capital of Byzantine Empire, ottoman empire took over, became the capital of ottoman empire, re-named Istanbul
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Muslim Scholar, traveled all over Dar-al-Islam, took many notes about everything, his journies were on the trade routes
Where did Marco Polo travel and what did he write about?
traveled from Italy to China (across Indian ocean) and wrote stories about China and their leader
Who is Maugery Kemp?
A Christian Mystic, made pilgramages to christian holy sites, dictated her journeys to be written down
What is the bubonic plague?
the Black death, very deadly, spread through trade-routes, killed a third of the population in the middle east
