Unit 2 Flashcards
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Monsoons
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predicable yearly storms. Summer Northeast Winds, Winter Southeast Winds.
2
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Magnetic Compass
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- allowed sailors to their bearing without the sight of the sun
3
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Astrolabe
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- allowed sailors to calculated the latitude
4
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Chinese Junks
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- huge bottomed ships to carry 500 men and big trunks loads of payloads for trade
5
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Kashgar
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- western edge of China where northern and southern routes of the Silk Roads crosses
6
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Samarkand
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- was a stopping point on the Silk Roads between China and the Mediterranean
7
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Caravanserai
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- places where travelers would rest and get the plague form animals then spread it
8
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Commercial Innovations
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- to mange the increasing trade, China developed new systems.
9
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Money economy
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- using money instead of like spices
10
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Flying Cash
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- allowed merchants to deposit paper money under his name in one location and withdraw the same amount at another location
11
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Hanseatic League
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- controlling trade in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, monopolizing trade in goods
12
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Khan
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- King
13
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Kuriltia
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Meeting for Genghis Khan
14
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The beginning of Conquest
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Genghis Khan and his troops headed east and attacked the powerful Jin Empire.
15
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Khanate
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- Kingdom, reached from the North China Sea to eastern Persia
16
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Siege weapons
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- portable towers and catapults
17
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Uyghur Alphabet
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- represent Mongol
18
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Batu and the Golden Horde
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- Batu, the son of Khan led a Mongolian army of 100,000 soldiers into Russia. Batu’s army which came to known as the Golden Horde marches western conquering the small Russian kingdoms and forcing them to pay tribute
19
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Hulegu
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- Grandson of Genghis Khan took charge of the southwest region
20
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II - Khanate
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- Hulegu’s Kingdom
21
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White Lotus Society
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- organizing to put a stop to the Yuan Dynasty
22
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Zhu Yuanzhang
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- a Buddhist monk from a poor peasant family led a revolt that overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and founded the Ming Dynasty
23
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Calicut
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- Cities on the west coast of India, center of trades due to interactions with merchants.
24
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Indian Ocean Slave Trade
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- African words, musical styles, and customs be found in Oman, India, and elsewhere
25
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Oases
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- vast expanse of sand and rock
26
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Mali
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- several new trading societies.
27
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Sundiata
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Mali’s founding ruler
