Unit 2 Vocab and Must Know People Flashcards
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Maritime
Connected to the sea in relation to navigation, shipping, trade, etc.
Monsoon
A seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and Southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
Entrepot
Trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit.
Example of Entrepot?
To illustrate, the reluctance of merchants to travel the entire length of the Silk Road made them more willing to sell to an entrepôt instead.
Caravanserais
An inn usually with a large courtyard for travelers with caravans. In Asia and North Africa
“Flying Money”
Is a type of paper negotiable instrument used during China’s Tang Dynasty invented by merchants but adopted by state.
Astrolabe
An instrument used by astronomers and navigators to measure the altitude about the horizon of a celestial body, day or night, Astrolabes were very effective for determining latitude on land or on clam seas and allowed sailors to sail further distances from the shoreline.
Who created the compass?
Han Dynasty, more for fortune telling first.
Dhow
Trading vessel primarily used to carry heavy items along the coastlines of the Indian Ocean.
Diasporic community
Communities of displaced population either permanently or temporarily separated from racial or ethnic identity. (Diasporic merchants)
Lateen sail
Triangular sail set on a long pole amounted at an angle on the mast; allows a boat to tack “against the wind”; used on Dhows in the Indian Ocean.
caravans
A group of merchants traveling together across the Silk Roads or Trans-Saharan trade routes.
Gunpowder
A mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate invented in the 9th century from China.
bubonic plague
Most common form of the plague. Swollen and tender lymph glands, fever, headaches, coughing up blood. Spread from fleas from rats to humans, humans are contagious to other humans when vomiting blood.
Shamanism
Mongol belief system. Based on the premise that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits that affect the lives of the living.
Khanate
Regional Mongol empires that arose following the death of Genghis Khan
Pax Mongolica
Describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol empire on the social. Cultural, and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Griot
West-African storyteller/served as keepers of tradition and advisors to Kings of Mali.
Maharaja
Originated from Sanskrit and means “great ruler” title used by Hindu monarchs of the princely states in South Asia.
Sultanate
Islamic state ruled by a sultan(monarch)
Indian Ocean gyre
Large system of rotating ocean currents and is composed of the south Equatorial Current and the West Australian Current controls the monsoons.
Who controls the monsoons again?
West Australian Current
Thalassocracy
Primary maritime empire, empire at sea, seaborne empire. No interior land.
Kublai Khan time?
1215-1294
