For Midterm Flashcards
Timbuktu
City in Niger River in Mali
Major terminus in the trains Saharan trade
Center of Islamic learning
12 tables
Roman law
Constantine
Roman emperor
Made Christianity the state religion
And Constantinople the new capital
Caliph
Successor of Muhammad
Pericles
Aristocratic leader guided Athenian state
Supervised the construction of the Acropolis
Started peloponnesian war
Mansa musa
Ruler of Mali
His pilgrimage through Egypt and Mecca set the empire reputation for wealth
Jesuits
A member of the society of Jews
Roman Catholic order of priests
Malacca
Port city in Malaysia
Strait of malacca
Renaissance
A period of intense artistic and intellectual rebirth
Ibn battuta
Moroccan scholar
Most widely traveled in his time
Reconquista
In medieval Spain and Portugal
To recapture the territory from the Muslims
Iberian peninsula
Crusades
By Christians to recover Jerusalem from the Muslims
Brought and end to intellectual and cultural isolation
Constantinople
Largest city and former capital of turkey rebuilt on the site of Byzantium by Constantine
Guild
An association of men who worked on something particular to promote their economic and political interests
Zheng he
Muslim
Went through Indian Ocean from Southeast Asia to Africa
Johann Gutenberg
A German printer ingested the printing press and the technique of printing with a movable type
Bantu
Collective name for a group of sub Saharan African languages
Great Zimbabwe
City that’s now in ruins
Was a trading center and the capital of a large state
Charlemagne
King of Frank’s/ emperor
Series of military conquests
Sponsored an brief intellectual revival
Khubilai khan
Last of the Mongol great khans founder of yuan empire
Genghis khan
Founder of the Mongol empire
The Black Death
An outbreak of bubonic plague spread across Asia North Africa and Europe
Agricultural revolution
Change from food gathering to food production
Neolithic revolution
Hammurabis code
Ruler of Babylon
On black stone pillars
Patriarchy
Father or older at male in charge
St. Paul
Spread Christianity
Departed Christianity from judaism
Siddartha Gautama
Buddha
Enunciated the principles of Buddhism
Justinians code
Byzantine emperor
Collection of laws
Hellenism
National character or culture of Greece
Aztecs
Central Mexico
Mayans
Yucatan peninsula
Most advanced
Incas
Andes mountain
City states in the valleys
1492
The year Christian expel Muslims from Spain
1494
Treaty of tordesillas
Spain and Portugal to devise new world
Christianity
Jesus
Bible
Monotheism
Israel/ Rome
Judaism
Abraham/ Moses Synagogues/ Torah Monotheism Jerusalem Spread to Jerusalem
Buddhism
Buddha Shrines/ temples Eighthfold path 4 noble truths nirvana India Spread all over Asia
Islam
Mosque/ Qur’an
Charity Ramadan
Saudi Arabia
Spread through Asia
Hinduism
Vedas
Reincarnation achieve darma/ moksha
Ancient India
Spread through Southeast Asia
Confucianism
Confucius
Filial piety Mandate of Heaven patriarchal
China
Press to Mongolia and Korea
Hajj
All Muslim do this
Hijra
Muhammad’s pilgrimage to Mecca
Pax Romana
“Roman peace”
Trade helped spread culture
