Vocab - Connections And Interactions Flashcards

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Silk roads

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A network of paths connecting civilizations in the East and west

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Sea roads

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A network of trade on the ocean

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Srivljaya

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A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of malacca between 670 and 1023 CE

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Angkor Wat

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An enormous Buddhist temple complex located in northern Cambodia

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Swahili civilization

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An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century C.E. from a blending of Bantu, Islamic, and other Indian Ocean trade elements

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Zheng He

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Muslim Chinese navigator, diplomat, and explorer who served the Ming dynasty emporers

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Mali

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Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa in 1200s - 1400s

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Trans Saharan slave trade

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a slave trade in which slaves were transported across the Sahara

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Timbuktu

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City on the Niger River in Mali, major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning

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House of wisdom

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Large private library belonging to the Abbasid Caliphs during the Islamic Golden Age

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American web

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The network of trade that linked parts of the pre - Columbian Americas

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Pochteca

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Processional merchants in the Aztec Empire, gained elite status

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