Redfern - AP World History Chapter 7 Strayer Flashcards

5299713682	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
5299713683	Black Death	Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century	1
5299713684	Bubonic Plague	A highly fatal disease spread by fleas, that devastated the Mediterranean world	2
5299713685	Borobudur	The largest Buddhism monument anywhere in the world. Example of cultural exchange and syncretism	3
5299713687	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	4
5299713688	Ibn Battuta	A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century	5
5299713689	Great Zimbabwe	A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast	6
5299713690	Indian Ocean Trade Network	The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce	7
5299713693	Monsoons	Alternating wind currents that blew eastward across the Indian Ocean in the summer and westward during the winter	8
5299713694	Pochteca	Professional merchants among the Aztecs	9
5299713697	Sand Roads	the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa	10
5299713698	Silk Roads	Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia	11
5299713699	Swahili Civilization	An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements	12
5299713700	Srivijaya	A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture	13
5299713701	Venice	An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade	14
5299713702	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	15
5299713703	Third-Wave Civilizations	Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks	16