3526150261 | Griots | African story teller, advisor, and historian. | 0 | |
3526150262 | Guilds | Economic associations between people in the same businesses or craft. | 1 | |
3526150263 | Marco Polo | 13th century traveler who stayed at the courts of Kubilai Khan for seventeen years. | ![]() | 2 |
3526214825 | Mansa Musa | King of Mali, whose famous hajj caused inflation because of the gold he distributed along his way to Mecca. | 3 | |
3526232794 | Vikings | Scandinavian people who raided Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries. | ![]() | 4 |
3526246097 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim traveler 14th century, who wrote about the world of Islam. Morocco to south east Asia. | 5 | |
3526261236 | Swahili | African language derived from Bantu, Arabic and Persian. | 6 | |
3526271408 | Islam | Monotheistic religion with 5 pillars founded in 622. | 7 | |
3526287812 | Syncretism | The combining of two different things to make something new. | 8 | |
3526298780 | 5 Pillars of Islam | 1. One god 2. Prayer five times a day 3. Charity 4. Ramadan 5. The Hajj | 9 | |
3526333992 | Genghis Kahn | The inferior of the Mongols. | 10 | |
3526340112 | Tribute | A payment to a government, could be labor or good. | 11 | |
3526345903 | Sufis | Muslim mystics who helped to spread Islam to India and S.E. Asia | 12 | |
3526438411 | Chinampas | Artificial islands on which mesoamericans grew crops. | 13 | |
3526448637 | Indian Ocean Trading Network | Trade network which included east Africa, the middle east, India, south east Asia and China. | ![]() | 14 |
3526457323 | Aztec | Mesoamerican kingdom which built its capitol, Tenochtitlan, on a lake. Conquered by Cortez in 1519. | 15 | |
3526498090 | Zheng He | Chinese admiral who traveled to Africa in the 15th century, he used 100 yard long treasure junks. | 16 | |
3526508359 | Gun Powder | Invented in China during the Song Dynasty. | ![]() | 17 |
3526513621 | The Great Schism | A division between the western Christian church and the eastern (orthodox) church in 1054. | 18 | |
3526526651 | Mongols | Nomadic group unified in the 13th century. Created the largest land empire to that time. | ![]() | 19 |
3526535907 | Renaissance | The reawakening of eastern Europe, the revival of Roman art and ideas. | 20 | |
3526546772 | Silk Road | Ancient trade route running from China, to the central Asia, the middle east and the Mediterranean. | ![]() | 21 |
3526555053 | Black Death | 14th century pandemic which came from China and killed at least one fourth of the Europeans. | 22 | |
3526563539 | Mali | West African kingdom established by Sundiata and later lead by Mansa Musa in the fourteenth century. | 23 | |
3526578877 | Joan of Arc | French leader who helped to expel the English but was burned at stake in 1431 | 24 | |
3526601151 | Inca | South American kingdom known for building a vast systems of roads, conquered by Pizarro in 1532. | 25 | |
3526616685 | Golden Horde | Mongol empire which occupied Russia from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. | 26 | |
3526629915 | Humanism | Western European movement which stressed the power and beauty of the mind, 14th century. | 27 | |
3526642920 | Byzantine Empire | The remainder of the Roman Empire in the east, it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. | 28 | |
3526653107 | Feudalism | A political system based on rigid social classes, loyalty and the granting of land to nobles and warriors. | 29 | |
3526661843 | Ghana | West African kingdom which traded gold for salt, 16th through 13th centuries. | 30 | |
3526671396 | Caliph | A spiritual and political leader of Islam claiming succession from Muhammad. | 31 | |
3526678206 | Mamluks | Slave soldiers who converted to Islam, They rose to power in Egypt. Stopped the Mongols 13th century. | 32 | |
3526794445 | Crusades | An attempt to take the "holy land" from the Muslims. Resulted in the spread of ideas to Europe. | ![]() | 33 |
3526804145 | Neo Conficianism | A revival of traditions and beliefs during the Tang and Song, which effected negatively. | 34 | |
3526808564 | Samari | The equivalent of the knight in Europe. | ![]() | 35 |
3526813585 | Constantinople | Capitol of the Byzantine Empire, conquered by the Ottomans in 1453. | 36 | |
3526821040 | Sultanate | A Muslim government. | 37 | |
3526824724 | Trans-Saharan Trading Network | Trade route centered on salt and gold. | ![]() | 38 |
3526826415 | Quipu | A system of knotted yarn used by the Inca to communicate across the empire. | ![]() | 39 |
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