AP World History Chapter 8 Strayer Flashcards

390127744	American Web	The network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas. Provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas	0
390127745	Black Death	Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century	1
390127746	Bubonic Plague	A highly fatal disease spread by fleas, that devastated the Mediterranean world	2
390127747	Borobudur	The largest Buddhism monument anywhere in the world. Example of cultural exchange and syncretism	3
390127748	Jie People	A nomadic people who controlled much of Northern China in the third and 4th centuries	4
390127749	Ghana, Mali, Songhay	A series of important states that developed in the western and central Sudan, in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade	5
390127750	Ibn Battuta	A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century	6
390127751	Great Zimbabwe	A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast	7
390127752	Indian Ocean Trade Network	The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce	8
390127753	Oasis cities of Central Asia	Cities such as Merv, Samarkand, Khotan and Dunhuang that became centers of trans-Eurasian trade	9
390127754	Sailendra	a kingdom of central Java that flourished from the 8th century to the 10th century	10
390127755	Monsoons	Alternating wind currents that blew eastward across the Indian Ocean in the summer and westward during the winter	11
390127756	Pochteca	Professional merchants among the Aztecs	12
390127757	Malaysians	Speakers of Austronesian languages from what is now Indonesia who became major traders in Southeast Asia and Madagascar	13
390127758	Sudan	A large region of West Africa that became part of a major exchange circuit	14
390127759	Sand Roads	the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa	15
390127760	Silk Roads	Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia	16
390127761	Swahili Civilization	An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements	17
390127762	Srivijaya	A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture	18
390127763	Venice	An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade	19
390127764	trans-Saharan slave trade	A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the 12th century with west African slaves captured in raids being exported across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants in Islamic North Africa	20
390127765	Third-Wave Civilizations	Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks	21