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12019285438Ibn BattutaMoroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time - wrote a detailed documentation of Afroeurasia0
12019336745TropicsThe area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn1
12019336746Monsoonsseasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons in Africa and Asia2
12019344451Hospitalityconsidered a virtue among muslims3
12019354765Farming in AfricaDry -Season Farming is digging wells and irrigation ditches to link ponds and fields. - most people were pastoralists or nomadic4
12019407571Delhi SultanateThe first Islamic government established within India - developed water control systems - grew new crops because canals made it possible to grow year round5
12019419800Irrigation systems in India and AngkorCanals built in Ganges remained for 500 years - island on India's tip had largest concentration of reservoirs and canals - these systems were very vulnerable6
12019453373Importance of salt in tradesalt had the value of gold - iw was used to preserve food and to feed some animals - we can't even relate to it's value7
12019510935The CopperbeltSE Africa, copper used for decoration, currency and more8
12019517606MaliIndigenous Afican dynasty, grew with influence of Muslim traders and scholars9
12019523408GhanaGold kingdom, controlled trade10
12019526870Mansa kankan musarichest man of al time11
12019536107Mansa musa's Hajj to Mecca1324 CE - a legendary story of how he travelled with tens of thousands of people and had soooo much wealth12
12019543527Delhi SulatanateAfter the Gupta Empire fell India was divided and prey to raids and a series of muslim invaders13
12019551413Jizyaa tax required of Jews and Christians14
12019556854RaziyaDaughter of iltutmish, - female delhi sultante - because her brothers were deemed fools by her father - only ruled for five years as she was killed in battle15
12019593826GujaratRegion of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.16
12019597845Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughluqenlarged the sultanate - religiously tolerant - attended Hindu Festivals17
12019613642Luxuries traded on the Indian Oceanprecious metals, jewels, rare spices and fine textiles18
12019618380DhowsCargo & passenger ships of Arabian sea - crossed large distances19
12019629403Junksthe largest, most advanced and sea worthy vessels of the time - 1.00020
12019635459Swahili CoastEast African coast - ivory, gold, wood - horses, inscense and goods from arabian - super cosmopolitan21
12019651282The straight of Malaccacrossroads of trade controlled by Singapore22
12019680585Great ZimbabweCity, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.23
12019683273AdenPort city in modern Yemen24
12019685705Gujaratthis state flourished with arabian trade and delhi sultanate25
12019691667Marco PoloItalian explorer who wrote about his travels to Central Asia and China.26
12019699729MalaccaPort city in the modern Malaysia, founded about 1400 as a trading center27
12019704686UrduA Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300s.28
12019707957Timbuktucity in modern Mali - founded as a seasonal camp and later became a terminus for trans-saharan trade - lots of Islamic scholars29
12019719874Salvery in the post-classical eraslavery became very popular in these regions - blacks were "in vogue" among chinese elites - mamluks were still used - delhi had loads of slaves - military campains reduced thousands of hindus to slavery30
12019733382Women in teh Post classical eraDepending on where tehy lived - female slaves were always household entertainment or concubines - Indian girls still maried young but didn't alwyas have to consumate if they didn't want to - sati wasn't mandatoru - some laws were harsher31
12019760825MexicaThe name given to themselves by the Aztec people32
12019760827AltepetlAn ethnic state in ancient Mesoamerica, the common political building block of that region.33
12019764716Calpolia group of up to 100 families that served as a social building block of an atepetl (Aztec city-state) in ancient mesoamerica34
12019767860TenochtitlanCapital 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.35
12019773018AztecsAlso known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.36
12019778889gender complimentalitymen's and women's roles were clearly distinguished but both highly valued37
12019783563Montezumathe ruler of the Aztecs when the SPaniards arrived38
12019787494Tribute SystemA system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.39
12019790129INka (inca)largest mesoamerican empire - land from Ecuador to Chile40
12019795288CuzcoThe capital city of the Incan Empire, Located in present-day Peru41
12019797462INka practiceslargely pastoralist, conquered a lot42
12019802819Temple of the SunInca religious center at Cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past Incas.43
12019804175KhipusSystem of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information.44

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