Chapter 10: Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE Vocab

Question 1

entrepôts

Answer 1

Multiethnic trading stations, often supported and protected by regional leaders, where traders exchanged commodities and replenished supplies in order to facilitate long-distance trade.

Question 2

jizya

Answer 2

Special tax that non-Muslims were forced to pay to their Islamic rulers in return for which they were given security and property and granted cultural autonomy.

Question 3

Sufism

Answer 3

Emotional and mystical form of Islam that appealed to the common people.

Question 4

Delhi Sultanate

Answer 4

A Turkish Muslim regime in northern India that, through its tolerance for cultural diversity, brought political integration without enforcing cultural homogeneity.

Question 5

flying cash

Answer 5

Letters of exchange—early predecessors of paper money—first developed by guilds in the northern Song province Shanxi that eclipsed coins by the thirteenth century.

Question 6

manorialism

Answer 6

System in which the manor (a lord’s home, its associated industry, and surrounding fields) served as the basic unit of economic power; an alternative to the concept of feudalism (the hierarchical relationships of king, lords, and peasantry) for thinking about the nature of power in western Europe from 1000 to 1300 CE.

Question 7

Mali Empire

Answer 7

West African empire, founded by the legendary king Sundiata in the early thirteenth century. It facilitated thriving commerce along routes linking the Atlantic Ocean, the Sahara, and beyond.

Question 8

Chimú Empire

Answer 8

South America’s first empire, centered at Chan Chan, in the Moche Valley on the Pacific coast from 1000 through 1470 CE, whose development was fueled by agriculture and commercial exchange.

Question 9

Toltecs

Answer 9

Mesoamerican peoples who filled the political vacuum left by Teotihuacán’s decline; established a temple-filled capital and commercial hub at Tula.

Question 10

Cahokia

Answer 10

Commercial city on the Mississippi River for regional and long-distance trade of commodities such as salt, shells, and skins and of manufactured goods such as pottery, textiles, and jewelry; marked by massive artificial hills, akin to earthen pyramids, used to honor spiritual forces.