Chapter 7 Vocabulary- AP World History Flashcards

3623182797	Silk Roads	International land trade route between China and the Mediterranean	0
3623192232	Silk	A luxury item of great comfort and status was used as currency. Symbol of status in China & Byzantine Empire	1
3623198051	Black Death	May have been bubonic plague, anthrax, or other disease. Killed 75-200 million people around 1346-1353	2
3623211513	Indian Ocean trading network	World's largest sea based system of communication and exchange before 1500 CE. Stretched from southern China to eastern Africa. Exchanged goods, ideas, crops.	3
3623230313	Arabian Sea (location)	Water body east of Arabian peninsula and west of India.	4
3623240942	Persian Gulf (location)	Water body between the Arabian peninsula and Persia. Northeast of modern day Saudi Arabia and southwest of Iran.	5
3623252520	Red Sea (location)	Water body between northeast Africa, Israel, and the Arabian peninsula.	6
3623262251	Bay of Bengal (location)	Water body east of India, south of Bangladesh, and west of southeast Asia	7
3623273924	South China Sea (location)	Water body east of China and Vietnam and north of the Philippines.	8
3623282554	Srivijaya	Malay kingdom that dominated the Straits of Malacca in 670 to 1025 CE; Noted for its creation of a native/hybrid culture	9
3623288496	Borobudur	Largest Buddhist monument ever built by the rulers of central Java in 9th century CE	10
3623291839	Angkor Wat	Largest religious structure in the pre-modern world; built in Cambodia in the early 1100's CE; expresses Hindu understandings of the cosmos	11
3623305319	Swahili civilization	East African civilization that emerged in 8th century CE from blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elments	12
3623312129	Great Zimbabwe	Powerful state in African interior that emerged from growing trade in gold to the East African coast. Flourished between 1250 and 1350 CE	13
3623320280	Sand Roads	Routes of the Trans-Saharan Trade in Africa	14
3623327802	Ghana, Mali, Songhay	Important states that developed in West Africa in 500 to 1600 CE in response to economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade	15
3623339808	trans-Saharan slave trade	developed in 12th century CE exporting West African slaves captured in roads across the Sahara for sale	16
3623346012	American web	Network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Colombian Americas provided means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas	17
3623353582	Thorfinn Karlsfeni	Well-born, wealthy merchant & seaman of Norwegian viking background who led an unsuccessful expedition to establish a colony on the coast of what is now Newfoundland, Canada in early 11th century CE	18
3623365993	pochteca	professional mecrhants among the Aztecs	19