Next quizlet for the post classical time period.
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| 1801989666 | 600-1450 | The dates for the post-Classical time period. |  | 0 |
| 1801989667 | Byzantine Empire | (330-1453) The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine. |  | 1 |
| 1801989668 | Swahili | Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa. |  | 2 |
| 1801989669 | Timbuktu | Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning |  | 3 |
| 1801989670 | Incan Empire | A Mesoamerican civilization in the Andes Mountains in South America that by the end of the 1400s was the largest empire in the Americas including much of what is now Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile; conquered by Pizarro. |  | 4 |
| 1801989671 | Aztec Empire | Central American empire constructed by the Mexica and expanded greatly during the fifteenth century during the reigns of Itzcoatl and Motecuzoma I. Conquered by Cortes. |  | 5 |
| 1801989672 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins. |  | 6 |
| 1801989673 | Teotihuacan | "The Place of the Gods"; first planned city in the Americas in the Valley of Mexico. |  | 7 |
| 1801989674 | Toltec | Central American society (950-1150) that was centered around the city of Tula. |  | 8 |
| 1801989675 | Mixtec | Term adopted from Spanish "Mixtecos," based on the original Nahuatl designation for the culture group of Oaxaca who call themselves "Nudzahui" |  | 9 |
| 1801989676 | Zapotec | A people developing in Oaxaca Valley, which supported agriculture. Began as scattered villages, but the city centers San Jose Mogote and Monte Alban emerged.They developed writing and a calendar, and were influenced by the Olmec. The reason for their fall remains unknown. |  | 10 |
| 1801989677 | Cahokia | A commercial center for regional and long-distance trade in North America. Its hinterlands produced staples for urban consumers. In return, its crafts were exported inland by porters and to North American markets in canoes. |  | 11 |
| 1801989678 | Mississippian Culture | Last of the mound-building cultures of North America; flourished between 800 and 1300 C.E.; featured large towns and ceremonial centers; lacked stone architecture of Central America. |  | 12 |
| 1801989679 | Vikings | Danes, Norse, ruled by kings and nobles, fairly democratic, hunters, gatherers, fishers, esp. farmers, raided Europe and the British Isles as the weather permitted, used slaves, assemblies of landowners made the laws, during the 800s famine, dominated the North Atlantic through the thirteenth century. |  | 13 |
| 1801989680 | al-Andalus | A Muslim-ruled region in what is now Spain, established by the Berbers in the eighth century CE. |  | 14 |
| 1801989681 | Caliphate | Office established in succession to the Prophet Muhammad, to rule the Islamic empire; also the name of that empire. |  | 15 |
| 1801989682 | Italian City-States | Venice, Milan, Florence, Papal States, Naples. |  | 16 |
| 1801989683 | Novgorod | Russia's first important city. |  | 17 |
| 1801989684 | Kievan Rus | A monarchy established in present day Russia in the 6th and 7th centuries. It was ruled through loosely organized alliances with regional aristocrats from. The Scandinavians coined the term "Russia". It was greatly influenced by Byzantine Empire. Conquered by the Mongols in the thirteenth century. |  | 18 |
| 1801989685 | Calicut | A city of southwest India on the Malabar Coast southwest of Bangalore. It was the site of Vasco da Gama's first landfall in India (1498) and was later occupied by Portuguese, British, French, and Danish trading colonies. |  | 19 |
| 1801989686 | Srivijaya | A state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, between the seventh and eleventh centuries C.E. It amassed wealth and power by a combination of selective adaptation of Indian technologies and concepts, and control of trade routes. |  | 20 |
| 1801989687 | Strait of Malacca | Narrow waterway located between the islands of Sumatra and Java, Body of water connecting the Indian and Pacific Ocean near Singapore. |  | 21 |
| 1801989688 | Malacca | City on the tip of the Malayan peninsula; a center for trade to the southeastern Asian islands; became a major Portuguese trading base. |  | 22 |
| 1801989689 | Hangzhou | Capital of later Song dynasty; located near East China Sea; permitted overseas trading; population exceeded 1 million. |  | 23 |
| 1801989690 | Venice | An Italian trading city on the Adriatic Sea, agreed to help the Byzantines' effort to regain the lands in return for trading privileges in Constantinople. |  | 24 |
| 1801989691 | Baghdad | Abbasid capital. Sacked by the Mongols in 1258. |  | 25 |
| 1801989692 | Yap | An island in Oceania that became a trading hub. |  | 26 |
| 1801989693 | Sui Dynasty | (589-618 CE) The Chinese dynasty that was like the Qin Dynasty in imposing tight political discipline; this dynasty built the Grand Canal which helped transport the rice in the south to the north. |  | 27 |
| 1801989694 | Tang Dynasty | (618-907 CE) The Chinese dynasty that was much like the Han, who used Confucianism. This dynasty had the equal-field system, a bureaucracy based on merit, and a Confucian education system. |  | 28 |
| 1801989695 | Song Dynasty | (960 - 1279 CE); this dynasty was started by Tai Zu; by 1000, a million people were living there; started feet binding; had a magnetic compass; had a navy; traded with india and persia (brought pepper and cotton); first to have paper money, explosive gun powder; *landscape black and white paintings. |  | 29 |
| 1801989696 | Yuan Dynasty | (1279-1368 CE) The dynasty with Mongol rule in China; centralized with bureaucracy but structure is different: Mongols on top->Persian bureaucrats->Chinese bureuacrats. |  | 30 |
| 1801989697 | Ming Dynasty | Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. |  | 31 |
| 1801989698 | Grand Canal | 1,100 mile waterway connecting the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers, completed under Sui. |  | 32 |
| 1801989699 | Mongol Empire | An empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe. |  | 33 |
| 1801989700 | Genghis Khan | (1167?-1227) One of the Mongol's greatest leaders and founder of the Mongol Empire. |  | 34 |
| 1801989701 | Temujin | Genghis Khan's real name. | | 35 |
| 1801989702 | Caravanserai | Inn or rest station for caravans, would provide a safe place to stay the night, supported the flow of commerce, information, and people across the network of Africa, Arabia and Asia. |  | 36 |
| 1801989703 | Camel Saddles | An invention which gives camel riders more stability on the animal and its invention and basic idea traveled along the Trans-Saharan Caravan Trade Route. |  | 37 |
| 1801989704 | Stirrup | Device for securing a horseman's feet, enabling him to wield weapons more effectively. First evidence of the use of stirrups was among the Kushan people of northern Afghanistan in approximately the first century C.E. |  | 38 |
| 1801989705 | Magnetic Compass | Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north. |  | 39 |
| 1801989706 | Astrolabe | An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets. |  | 40 |
| 1801989707 | Dhow | Arab sailing vessels with triangular or lateen sails; strongly influenced European ship design. |  | 41 |
| 1801989708 | Longboat | A boat with a shallow bow and a trademark dragon or scary face on the tip of the ship that was used by the Vikings. |  | 42 |
| 1801989709 | Chinese Junk | A very large flat-bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel. |  | 43 |
| 1801989710 | Bantu | A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa. |  | 44 |
| 1801989711 | Polynesians | Inhabitants of the Pacific Islands that lie within a triangle formed by Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island. |  | 45 |
| 1801989712 | Turkic Language | A language family of at least thirty-five languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China. |  | 46 |
| 1801989713 | Sogdian Merchants | People of central Asia who maintained stability and access of the silk road around 300-600 CE. |  | 47 |
| 1801989714 | Constantinople | A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire, now known as Istanbul. |  | 48 |
| 1801989715 | Xuanzang | (602-644 CE) A famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period. He became famous for his 17 year trip to India and back. |  | 49 |
| 1801989716 | Marco Polo | (1254-1324) Italian explorer and author. He made numerous trips to China and returned to Europe to write of his journeys. He is responsible for much of the knowledge exchanged between Europe and China during this time period. |  | 50 |
| 1801989717 | Ibn Battuta | (1304-1369) Morrocan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. His writings gave a glimpse into the world of that time period. |  | 51 |
| 1801989718 | Scholasticism | A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. |  | 52 |
| 1801989719 | Thomas Aquinas | (Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology. |  | 53 |
| 1801989720 | Gunpowder | A mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, in various proportions. The formula, brought to China in the 400s or 500s, was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. IN later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs, shot, and bullets. |  | 54 |
| 1801989721 | Smallpox | A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever, weakness, and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs; responsible for killing many Native Americans. |  | 55 |
| 1801989722 | Dreamtime | A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings. |  | 56 |
| 1801989723 | Crusades | A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. |  | 57 |
| 1801989724 | Champa Rice | Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India, it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state. |  | 58 |
| 1801989725 | Chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. |  | 59 |
| 1801989726 | Waru Waru | The technique consists in combining raised beds with irrigation channels so as to prevent damage due to soil erosion during floods. |  | 60 |
| 1801989727 | Terracing | A soil conservation technique that prevents erosion on STEEP hills by heavy rains. |  | 61 |
| 1801989728 | Corvee | Unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes. |  | 62 |
| 1801989729 | Serfdom | A type of labor commonly used in feudal systems in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but they are bound to the land and are not allowed to leave or to peruse their a new occupation. This was common in early Medeival Europe as well as in Russia until the mid 19th century. |  | 63 |
| 1801989730 | Feudalism | A social, political, and economic system that dominated all aspects of medieval European life. | | 64 |
| 1801989731 | Samarkand | Central Asian trading center on the Silk Road that was attacked by the Umayyads. |  | 65 |
| 1801989732 | Ulaanbataar | Capital of Mongolia built by Genghis Khan. |  | 66 |
| 1801989733 | Mit'a | Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations. |  | 67 |
| 1801989734 | Neo-Confucianism | A philosophy that emerged in Song-dynasty China; it revived Confucian thinking while adding in Buddhist and Daoist elements. |  | 68 |
