Chapter 12 Terms Flashcards
Identify the Silk Roads
a network of trade routes on land running from China to the Roman Empire. The Silk Roads made it safe to trade and travel long distances, avoiding bandits and pirates because of military personel found on the routes it self. Invisible things like ideas, religion and disease found its way along the Silk Roads too.
ID Spice Routes
Trade routes over the Indian Ocean that traded Asian goods, like silk, porceline, spices, gold, etc.
Spices were important because they perserved food/meat. High Demand
ID Missionaries
Choose to travel to another part of the world to help people. Missionaries luered people into trusting the religion by their kind actions, and it lead to people converting to the religion (like Christianity)
ID Asceticism
Thought of denying yourself of sex, meat, and other pleasures. The people who fallow this belief are ascetic. They believe that denying themself such pleasures brings them closer to god.
ID Manichaeism
An example of religious syncretism between Jewish, Christian, and Zorastian religion and beliefs. Missionaries on the silk road helped to spread the religion.
ID Syncretism
The blending of cultures, religions, or ideas.
ID Religions of Salvation
Any religion that involves salvation.
Christianity, Islam, Buddism, Manichaeism.
+during the fall of the Han and Roman Empire.
all offer a form of relief from day to day earthly pain and suffering. Majority of converts were people who were pressured by government and society.
ID Epidemic Diseases
“Invisible Travelers”
Smallpox, measles and the plauge. Came from Europe to Asia and spread through the Silk Roads. Brought empires down to a 3/4 of the original size. No Resistance, immunity or medicine to counter. Economy and Social life dropped. Places of mass population dropped rapidly.
ID Yellow Turban Rebellion
uprising by the pesants because of the pressure put on them by they government. they wore yellow turbans because the soil in China is Yellow, hence the name.
ID Diocletian
Ruler of Rome.
He split the Roman Empire in half. he gave the western half to Maximilian and kept the eastern half for himself. Made economic reforms like fixed prices, an official currency and permanent occupations within family buisnessess. His actions slowed down the decline of the Roman Empire.
ID Constantine I
Roman ruler.
Legalized Christianity, which allowed people to express their faith in public. United Eastern and Western parts that Diocletian originaly split apart. He made Constantinople the capital city which atracted trade. He had the trouble of ruling solo over a avast empire.
ID St. Augustine
He explained Christianity so the educated could understand by combining religion with science.
ID Pope
Top dog of Christianity (asides from god, etc.)
Part of the christian religions heiarchy in the church and is also know as the bishop of Rome and athlete of God,
Where did the principal silk roads/ spice routes run, and what good were traded along them?
Silk- from Eastern China west and either South into India or continuing west to Cities in the Roman Empire.
Spice- South China Sea through Indonesia, around India, snd up though the Red Sea or Persian Gulf.
Goods- Silk, Spices, Wine, medicine (spices), jewlery, art, and live stock (horses).
Invisible goods- Religion and diseases.
Explain the importance of Invisible travelers.
Religions- of salvations appealed to people suffering because it gave them hope.
Disease- epidemics, lead to economic and social retractions and loss of 1/4 of population.
Ideas- Cultural traditions from outside the country, like the nomdic people, help grow the empire.
