Unit 3 Flashcards
A major center for Islamic learning as this location contained many Islamic Schools as well as a major trading post.
Timbuktu
Dynasty in founded on an Island in Mexico. Fought wars to capture people for sacrificing. Private trade.
Aztec
One of the first civilizations in Africa that contributed to the Trans Saharan trade. Was known for its Gold.
Ghana
Becam a celebrity after going to India to study Buddhism and returning to China to teach what he had learned.
Xuanzang
A major split in a religion concerning the next rightfull political and religious leader.
Sunni Shia Split
A versitile Arab ship ment for sailing and exploring the ocean.
Dhow Ship
Asian trading hub that facilitaded the trade of silk and religion along the Silk Roads. Major trader with China and adopted many of their customs.
Sogdian Merchant Communities
A disease spread by rats that devestated Asia, Europe and Africa.
Bubonic Plaque
Replaced the Ummayads after their fall. Political unity did not last and fractured into states ruled by turks and persians.
Abbasid Caliphate
Started the canals and reunified China but fell rather quickly.
Sui
North African Spanish Christians who self invoked martyrdom by insulting Mohhamid.
Berbers
Muslim leader of a fleet with junk ships used to enroll nations in the tribute system.
Zheng He
The realm or home of Islam which spread from Europe to Africa to Asia.
Dar-al-Islam
Commercial East African Indepenndant cities were a major trading points along the coast. Had Arab and Persian rulers.
Swahili Coast
A transportation system that was 14,000 miles long in the highlands.
Inca Road System
A highly centralised buracratic empire that controlled trade and spread over 20,000 miles.
Inca Empire
A system during the tang dynasty where land was distributed to lower class people based on neccesity.
Equal Feild System
The idea that a empire was greater than another and the subordinate must give gifts to maintain peace.
Tributary System
The period of peace due to control of a major trading route which increased trade.
Pax Mongolica
Italian travelor who traveled throughout Asia and Europe and was known for describing life in China while safely traveling on Mongolian Roads.
Marco Polo
Conqured Ghana and gained access to salt mines in Africa.
Mali
Hotels/Inns for merchants along trade routes in Africa.
Caravanseria
The religiously diverse area where Muslims conquered Europe and led a era of harmony. Contained Mozarabs.
Al-Andalus
The attempt to make Japan’s government similar to the burracracy of China.
Taika Reforms
An agreement made by northern germanic trading groups to protect eachothers interest in trade.
Hanseatic League
Empire home to Timbuktu, ruled over a largely none muslim population that became more muslim and helped connect the Muslim world. Leader was Mohhamid Toure.
Songhay
The practice of withdrawing from the community specific to Buddhism and Christianity prominent in both genders.
Female Monastic Orders
Founded by Mohhamid, son of a trader who recieved revalations from Allah and went on to create a religious political system.
Islam
Known for his pilgramage to Mecca and is the King of Mali. He is also very rich that he sank the Egyption Economy.
Mansa Musa
Boats that could travell through shallow water and were used to move upstream through rivers.
Viking Longships
Floating farm beds used by the Aztecs (Chinampas) and better fast growing drought resistant rice from vietnam (Champa Rice) were part of a revolution in..
New Agriculture Techniques
Eastern half that continued Roman tradition with capital of Constantinopel.
Byzantine Empire
African People who moved east and south conquering and driviving out paleolithic peoples with war and disease.
Bantu Migrations
The relationship of the state being directy tied to the church where the leader appointed the pope or church leader under him.
Caesaopapism
A revival of scholarship traditional thinking while incorporating into some slight Buddhism and Daoism.
Neoconfucianism
A strait in south east asia under control of the Srivijaya. A major choke point for trade?
Malacca
Military campains to take back the holy lands and they turned against Byzantine.
The Crusades
An alternative in the Song dynasty due to lack of metal for monatery transactions.
Paper Money
An Arab Muslim travalar and scholar who ften critiqued and documentedd his travels to nations becoming Islamic.
Ibn Battuta
First dynasty in Islam. Contributed to growing tensions with the Shia. They became corrupt and were overthrown.
Umayyad Caliphate
Chinese era where there was an explosion of scholarship of neoconfucianism and a Golden Age.
Song Dynasty
Tribute to the Inca government in the form of mandatory service in participation of dangerous jobs.
Mit’a System
Empire that became good at transportation and the division of land as well as expanded the empire more. Fell apart due to curruption.
Tang Dynasty
Groups of people pursuing the same line of work in Western Europe.
Guilds
A system where people saught protection under a lord in exchange for labor and service.
Serfdom
Consolidation of Roman law that made everything simpler for everyone and was very similar to previous law doctrines.
Code of Justinian
A system found where power is decentralised and spread out in a strict hiearchy. Subordinates are given land and power in exchange for service.
Feudalism
The split of the mongol empire into 4 kingdoms.
Mongol Khanates
Finished by the Song Dynasty, a systym of transportation that made consolidated the Chinese Empire.
Grand Canal
Became known as the 3rd rome, culturally diverse and eventually accepted Orthodoxy. Connected Scandinavia and Byzintine.
Kievan Rus
