12019285438 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time - wrote a detailed documentation of Afroeurasia | 0 | |
12019336745 | Tropics | The area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn | 1 | |
12019336746 | Monsoons | seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons in Africa and Asia | 2 | |
12019344451 | Hospitality | considered a virtue among muslims | 3 | |
12019354765 | Farming in Africa | Dry -Season Farming is digging wells and irrigation ditches to link ponds and fields. - most people were pastoralists or nomadic | 4 | |
12019407571 | Delhi Sultanate | The first Islamic government established within India - developed water control systems - grew new crops because canals made it possible to grow year round | 5 | |
12019419800 | Irrigation systems in India and Angkor | Canals built in Ganges remained for 500 years - island on India's tip had largest concentration of reservoirs and canals - these systems were very vulnerable | 6 | |
12019453373 | Importance of salt in trade | salt had the value of gold - iw was used to preserve food and to feed some animals - we can't even relate to it's value | 7 | |
12019510935 | The Copperbelt | SE Africa, copper used for decoration, currency and more | 8 | |
12019517606 | Mali | Indigenous Afican dynasty, grew with influence of Muslim traders and scholars | 9 | |
12019523408 | Ghana | Gold kingdom, controlled trade | 10 | |
12019526870 | Mansa kankan musa | richest man of al time | 11 | |
12019536107 | Mansa musa's Hajj to Mecca | 1324 CE - a legendary story of how he travelled with tens of thousands of people and had soooo much wealth | 12 | |
12019543527 | Delhi Sulatanate | After the Gupta Empire fell India was divided and prey to raids and a series of muslim invaders | 13 | |
12019551413 | Jizya | a tax required of Jews and Christians | 14 | |
12019556854 | Raziya | Daughter of iltutmish, - female delhi sultante - because her brothers were deemed fools by her father - only ruled for five years as she was killed in battle | 15 | |
12019593826 | Gujarat | Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing. | 16 | |
12019597845 | Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughluq | enlarged the sultanate - religiously tolerant - attended Hindu Festivals | 17 | |
12019613642 | Luxuries traded on the Indian Ocean | precious metals, jewels, rare spices and fine textiles | 18 | |
12019618380 | Dhows | Cargo & passenger ships of Arabian sea - crossed large distances | 19 | |
12019629403 | Junks | the largest, most advanced and sea worthy vessels of the time - 1.000 | 20 | |
12019635459 | Swahili Coast | East African coast - ivory, gold, wood - horses, inscense and goods from arabian - super cosmopolitan | 21 | |
12019651282 | The straight of Malacca | crossroads of trade controlled by Singapore | 22 | |
12019680585 | Great Zimbabwe | City, 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 | |
12019683273 | Aden | Port city in modern Yemen | 24 | |
12019685705 | Gujarat | this state flourished with arabian trade and delhi sultanate | 25 | |
12019691667 | Marco Polo | Italian explorer who wrote about his travels to Central Asia and China. | 26 | |
12019699729 | Malacca | Port city in the modern Malaysia, founded about 1400 as a trading center | 27 | |
12019704686 | Urdu | A Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300s. | 28 | |
12019707957 | Timbuktu | city in modern Mali - founded as a seasonal camp and later became a terminus for trans-saharan trade - lots of Islamic scholars | 29 | |
12019719874 | Salvery in the post-classical era | slavery 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 slavery | 30 | |
12019733382 | Women in teh Post classical era | Depending 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 harsher | 31 | |
12019760825 | Mexica | The name given to themselves by the Aztec people | 32 | |
12019760827 | Altepetl | An ethnic state in ancient Mesoamerica, the common political building block of that region. | 33 | |
12019764716 | Calpoli | a group of up to 100 families that served as a social building block of an atepetl (Aztec city-state) in ancient mesoamerica | 34 | |
12019767860 | 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. | 35 | |
12019773018 | Aztecs | Also 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 | |
12019778889 | gender complimentality | men's and women's roles were clearly distinguished but both highly valued | 37 | |
12019783563 | Montezuma | the ruler of the Aztecs when the SPaniards arrived | 38 | |
12019787494 | Tribute System | A 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 | |
12019790129 | INka (inca) | largest mesoamerican empire - land from Ecuador to Chile | 40 | |
12019795288 | Cuzco | The capital city of the Incan Empire, Located in present-day Peru | 41 | |
12019797462 | INka practices | largely pastoralist, conquered a lot | 42 | |
12019802819 | Temple of the Sun | Inca religious center at Cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past Incas. | 43 | |
12019804175 | Khipus | System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. | 44 |
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