AP World History (Mongolian and West African Empires) Flashcards

284671466	Ghengis Khan	founder of the Mongolian empire and unifies Mongols and Khans	0
284671467	Skills of Mongols	experts at horse great at archery silk armor	1
284671468	Name the 4 Khanates	Mongolian Russian Chinese (Yuan) Persian	2
284671469	Kubilia Khan	grandson of Ghangis Khan who seperated Mongols and Chinese and allowed no assimilation	3
284671470	Marco Polo	european who brought European knowledge and innovations back to Europe	4
284671471	Social policies in China	No intermarriage Chinese were not allowed to learn Mongolian	5
284671472	Hulegu	Ruler of Persian Khanate	6
284671473	Two countries that remained Christian in Africa	Ethiopa and Egypt	7
284671474	Why did the Mongols never expand to SE Asia?	too tropical with many jungles (geogrphically unwise)	8
284671475	Why did the Mongols never expand to Japan?	Tyfoon of 1281 destroyed fleet and sails	9
284671476	What is diplomacy?	promotes the use of ambassadors	10
284671477	Describe the concpet of resettling peoples	Whenever specialists were needed, the needed people were taken to the area where the problem was	11
284671478	Reasons for the fall of the Mongols	Decentralized Lack of experience Inflation (Economic failure)	12
284671479	Sundiata	leader of Mali who took over Ghana empire	13
284671480	What is Timbuktu?	commercial trading center and capital of Mali	14
284671481	Why was Timbuktu a safe place for the economic trade center?	It was located in the middle of nowhewre for protector	15
284671482	Mansa Musa	Islamic traveler who brings back Islamic education and architecture in pilgrammage to Mecca	16
284671483	Songhai	last great W. African civilization	17
284671484	Swahili States	names given to eastern states because they were located on the coast	18
284671485	How did Islam travel in the Swahili states?	Indian Ocean Trade	19
284671486	Early African relgion	animistic	20
284671487	Rise of Islam in Transaharan appealed to what regions	N. & W. Africa	21
284671488	Rise of Islam in Indian Ocean Trade appealed to what regions	E. Africa	22
284671489	syncratism	mixture of two religions	23