AP World History Chapter 8 Strayer Flashcards

4011762774	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
4011762775	Black Death	Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century	1
4011762777	Borobudur	The largest Buddhism monument anywhere in the world. Example of cultural exchange and syncretism	2
4011762779	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	3
4011762781	Great Zimbabwe	A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast	4
4011762782	Indian Ocean Trade Network	The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce	5
4011762786	Pochteca	Professional merchants among the Aztecs	6
4011762789	Sand Roads	the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa	7
4011762790	Silk Roads	Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia	8
4011762791	Swahili Civilization	An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements	9
4011762792	Srivijaya	A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture	10
4011762794	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	11