World history ap Flashcards

3526150261	Griots	African story teller, advisor, and historian.	0
3526150262	Guilds	Economic associations between people in the same businesses or craft.	1
3526150263	Marco Polo	13th century traveler who stayed at the courts of Kubilai Khan for seventeen years.	2
3526214825	Mansa Musa	King of Mali, whose famous hajj caused inflation because of the gold he distributed along his way to Mecca.	3
3526232794	Vikings	Scandinavian people who raided Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries.	4
3526246097	Ibn Battuta	Muslim traveler 14th century, who wrote about the world of Islam. Morocco to south east Asia.	5
3526261236	Swahili	African language derived from Bantu, Arabic and Persian.	6
3526271408	Islam	Monotheistic religion with 5 pillars founded in 622.	7
3526287812	Syncretism	The combining of two different things to make something new.	8
3526298780	5 Pillars of Islam	1. One god 2. Prayer five times a day 3. Charity 4. Ramadan 5. The Hajj	9
3526333992	Genghis Kahn	The inferior of the Mongols.	10
3526340112	Tribute	A payment to a government, could be labor or good.	11
3526345903	Sufis	Muslim mystics who helped to spread Islam to India and S.E. Asia	12
3526438411	Chinampas	Artificial islands on which mesoamericans grew crops.	13
3526448637	Indian Ocean Trading Network	Trade network which included east Africa, the middle east, India, south east Asia and China.	14
3526457323	Aztec	Mesoamerican kingdom which built its capitol, Tenochtitlan, on a lake. Conquered by Cortez in 1519.	15
3526498090	Zheng He	Chinese admiral who traveled to Africa in the 15th century, he used 100 yard long treasure junks.	16
3526508359	Gun Powder	Invented in China during the Song Dynasty.	17
3526513621	The Great Schism	A division between the western Christian church and the eastern (orthodox) church in 1054.	18
3526526651	Mongols	Nomadic group unified in the 13th century. Created the largest land empire to that time.	19
3526535907	Renaissance	The reawakening of eastern Europe, the revival of Roman art and ideas.	20
3526546772	Silk Road	Ancient trade route running from China, to the central Asia, the middle east and the Mediterranean.	21
3526555053	Black Death	14th century pandemic which came from China and killed at least one fourth of the Europeans.	22
3526563539	Mali	West African kingdom established by Sundiata and later lead by Mansa Musa in the fourteenth century.	23
3526578877	Joan of Arc	French leader who helped to expel the English but was burned at stake in 1431	24
3526601151	Inca	South American kingdom known for building a vast systems of roads, conquered by Pizarro in 1532.	25
3526616685	Golden Horde	Mongol empire which occupied Russia from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century.	26
3526629915	Humanism	Western European movement which stressed the power and beauty of the mind, 14th century.	27
3526642920	Byzantine Empire	The remainder of the Roman Empire in the east, it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.	28
3526653107	Feudalism	A political system based on rigid social classes, loyalty and the granting of land to nobles and warriors.	29
3526661843	Ghana	West African kingdom which traded gold for salt, 16th through 13th centuries.	30
3526671396	Caliph	A spiritual and political leader of Islam claiming succession from Muhammad.	31
3526678206	Mamluks	Slave soldiers who converted to Islam, They rose to power in Egypt. Stopped the Mongols 13th century.	32
3526794445	Crusades	An attempt to take the "holy land" from the Muslims. Resulted in the spread of ideas to Europe.	33
3526804145	Neo Conficianism	A revival of traditions and beliefs during the Tang and Song, which effected negatively.	34
3526808564	Samari	The equivalent of the knight in Europe.	35
3526813585	Constantinople	Capitol of the Byzantine Empire, conquered by the Ottomans in 1453.	36
3526821040	Sultanate	A Muslim government.	37
3526824724	Trans-Saharan Trading Network	Trade route centered on salt and gold.	38
3526826415	Quipu	A system of knotted yarn used by the Inca to communicate across the empire.	39