Chapter 7 AP World History Flashcards

7860722301	American web	A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas; although less intense and complete than the Afro-Eurasian trade networks, this web nonetheless provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas.	0
7860729734	Thorfinn Karlsfeni	A well-born, wealthy merchant and seaman of Norwegian Viking background, Karlsfeni led an unsuccessful expedition to establish a colony on the coast of what is now Newfoundland, Canada in the early eleventh century C.E.	1
7860731349	Black Death	The name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the fourteenth century C.E.; it may have been bubonic plague, anthrax, or a collection of epidemic diseases.	2
7860733474	pochteca	Professional merchants among the Aztecs.	3
7860736603	Swahili civilization	An East African civilization that emerged in the eighth century C.E. from a blending of Bantu, Islamic, and other Indian Ocean trade elements. (pron. swah-HEE-lee)	4
7860740847	Srivijaya	A Malay kingdom that dominated the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 C.E.; noted for its creation of a native/Indian hybrid culture. (pron. sree-vih-JUH-yah)	5
7860742123	Silk Roads	Land-based trade routes that linked Eurasia.	6
7860743908	Sand Roads	A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa.	7
7860748304	Ghana, Mali, Songhay	A series of important states that developed in western and central Sudan in the period 500-1600 C.E. in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade (especially control of gold production). (pron. GAH-nah, MAH-lee, song-GAH-ee)	8
7860750967	Great Zimbabwe	A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E.	9
7860753160	Indian Ocean trading network	The world's largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 C.E., Indian Ocean commerce stretched from southern China to eastern Africa and included not only the exchange of luxury and bulk goods but also the exchange of ideas and crops.	10
7860761449	Borobudur	The largest Buddhist monument ever built, Borobudur is a mountainous ten-level monument with an elaborate carving program, probably built in the ninth century C.E. by the Sailendras rulers of central Java; it is an outstanding example of cultural exchange and syncretism. (pron. BORE-ahboo-DOOR)	11
7860771010	Angkor Wat	The largest religious structure in the pre-modern world, construction began on this temple, which is located in modern Cambodia, in the early 1100s C.E. It was built to express a Hindu understanding of the cosmos, centered on a mythical Mt. Meru, the home of the gods in Hindu tradition.	12
7860772395	trans-Saharan slave trade	A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the twelfth century C.E., exporting West African slaves captured in raids across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants or concubines.	13