Unit 3 Flashcards
Serfdom
A system where people saught protection under a lord in exchange for labor and service.
Berbers
North African Spanish Christians who self invoked martyrdom by insulting Mohhamid.
Xuanzang
Becam a celebrity after going to India to study Buddhism and returning to China to teach what he had learned.
Bubonic Plaque
A disease spread by rats that devestated Asia, Europe and Africa.
Mit’a System
Tribute to the Inca government in the form of mandatory service in participation of dangerous jobs.
Hanseatic League
An agreement made by northern germanic trading groups to protect eachothers interest in trade.
Kievan Rus
Became known as the 3rd rome, culturally diverse and eventually accepted Orthodoxy. Connected Scandinavia and Byzintine.
Sogdian Merchant Communities
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.
Equal Feild System
A system during the tang dynasty where land was distributed to lower class people based on neccesity.
Abbasid Caliphate
Replaced the Ummayads after their fall. Political unity did not last and fractured into states ruled by turks and persians.
Pax Mongolica
The period of peace due to control of a major trading route which increased trade.
Guilds
Groups of people pursuing the same line of work in Western Europe.
The Crusades
Military campains to take back the holy lands and they turned against Byzantine.
Songhay
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.
Swahili Coast
Commercial East African Indepenndant cities were a major trading points along the coast. Had Arab and Persian rulers.
Caesaopapism
The relationship of the state being directy tied to the church where the leader appointed the pope or church leader under him.
Tributary System
The idea that a empire was greater than another and the subordinate must give gifts to maintain peace.
Ibn Battuta
An Arab Muslim travalar and scholar who ften critiqued and documentedd his travels to nations becoming Islamic.
Marco Polo
Italian travelor who traveled throughout Asia and Europe and was known for describing life in China while safely traveling on Mongolian Roads.
Umayyad Caliphate
First dynasty in Islam. Contributed to growing tensions with the Shia. They became corrupt and were overthrown.
Byzantine Empire
Eastern half that continued Roman tradition with capital of Constantinopel.
Feudalism
A system found where power is decentralised and spread out in a strict hiearchy. Subordinates are given land and power in exchange for service.
Taika Reforms
The attempt to make Japan’s government similar to the burracracy of China.
Song Dynasty
Chinese era where there was an explosion of scholarship of neoconfucianism and a Golden Age.
Inca Empire
A highly centralised buracratic empire that controlled trade and spread over 20,000 miles.
Neoconfucianism
A revival of scholarship traditional thinking while incorporating into some slight Buddhism and Daoism.
Aztec
Dynasty in founded on an Island in Mexico. Fought wars to capture people for sacrificing. Private trade.
Zheng He
Muslim leader of a fleet with junk ships used to enroll nations in the tribute system.
Mali
Conqured Ghana and gained access to salt mines in Africa.
Mongol Khanates
The split of the mongol empire into 4 kingdoms.
Dar-al-Islam
The realm or home of Islam which spread from Europe to Africa to Asia.
Islam
Founded by Mohhamid, son of a trader who recieved revalations from Allah and went on to create a religious political system.
Tang Dynasty
Empire that became good at transportation and the division of land as well as expanded the empire more. Fell apart due to curruption.
Timbuktu
A major center for Islamic learning as this location contained many Islamic Schools as well as a major trading post.
Dhow Ship
A versitile Arab ship ment for sailing and exploring the ocean.
Ghana
One of the first civilizations in Africa that contributed to the Trans Saharan trade. Was known for its Gold.
Al-Andalus
The religiously diverse area where Muslims conquered Europe and led a era of harmony. Contained Mozarabs.
Code of Justinian
Consolidation of Roman law that made everything simpler for everyone and was very similar to previous law doctrines.
Bantu Migrations
African People who moved east and south conquering and driviving out paleolithic peoples with war and disease.
Grand Canal
Finished by the Song Dynasty, a systym of transportation that made consolidated the Chinese Empire.
Malacca
A strait in south east asia under control of the Srivijaya. A major choke point for trade?
Sunni Shia Split
A major split in a religion concerning the next rightfull political and religious leader.
Mansa Musa
Known for his pilgramage to Mecca and is the King of Mali. He is also very rich that he sank the Egyption Economy.
New Agriculture Techniques
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..
Inca Road System
A transportation system that was 14,000 miles long in the highlands.
Caravanseria
Hotels/Inns for merchants along trade routes in Africa.
Female Monastic Orders
The practice of withdrawing from the community specific to Buddhism and Christianity prominent in both genders.
Paper Money
An alternative in the Song dynasty due to lack of metal for monatery transactions.
Viking Longships
Boats that could travell through shallow water and were used to move upstream through rivers.
Sui
Started the canals and reunified China but fell rather quickly.
