AP World History Chapter 13 Flashcards

5645710116	Benin	Territorial state that emerged by the fifteenth century in the region that is now southern Nigeria; ruled by a warrior king who consolidated his state through widespread conquest	0
5645719297	Fuble	West Africa's largest pastoral society, whose members gradually adopted Islam and took on a religious leadership role that led to the creation of a number of new states.	1
5645727663	Igbo	People whose lands were east of the Niger River in what is now southern Nigeria in West Africa; they built a complex society that rejected kingship and centralized statehood and relied on other institutions to provide social coherence.	2
5645733621	Inca Empire	The Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; built by a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people (the Inca), the empire stretched some 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains, which run nearly the entire length of the west coast of South America, and contained perhaps 10 million subjects.	3
5645738796	quipu-a	system of record-keeping that involved using strings of knotted ropes.	4
5645747680	Virgins of the Sun	"chosen women": Among the Incas, girls who were removed from their homes at a young age, trained in Inca ideology, and set to producing corn beer and textiles; they later were given as wives to distinguished men or sent to serve as priestesses.	5
5645751727	Iroquois League of Five Nations	Confederation of five Iroquois peoples in what is now New York State; the loose alliance was based on the Great Law of Peace, an agreement to settle disputes peacefully through a council of clan leaders, include respect for human rights	6
5645863401	Malacca	Muslim port city that came to prominence on the waterway between Sumatra and Malaya in the fifteenth century C.E.; it was the springboard for the spread of a syncretic form of Islam throughout the region.	7
5645867768	Ming Dynasty	Chinese dynasty (1368-1644) that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols; noted for its return to traditional Chinese ways and restoration of the land after the destructiveness of the Mongols.	8
5645877290	Yongle	Chinese emperor (r. 1402-1422) during the Ming dynasty who was a key figure in the restoration of China to greatness and who commissioned an enormous fleet to spread awareness of Chinese superiority to much of Asia and eastern Africa-treasure fleet of Zheng He.	9
5645880617	Zheng He	Great Chinese admiral (1371-1433) who commanded a fleet of more than 300 ships in a series of voyages of contact and exploration that began in 1405	10
5645884533	Mughal Empire	One of the most successful empires of India, a state founded by an Islamized Turkic group that invaded India in 1526; the Mughals' rule was noted for their efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims. Emperor Akbar fused Hindu and Muslim traditions; Emperor Jahangir builds Taj Mahal	11
5645888821	Ottoman Empire	Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans, the Near East, and much of North Africa. Conquered the Byzantine Empire in 1453. Ruled by sultans, the most important Suleyman the Magnificent.	12
5645896234	Safavid Empire	Major Turkic empire of Persia founded in the early sixteenth century, notable for it efforts to convert its populace to Shia Islam. Rival to the Ottomans who were Sunni.	13
5645899345	Songhay Empire	: Major Islamic state of West Africa that formed in the second half of the fifteenth century. The largest of the African Empires-cities of Timbuktu and Jenne Jenno prospered with salt and gold trade. Use Islam as a way to conquer neighbors and expand the empire. Use of weapons provided by the Portuguese.	14
5645903484	Timbuktu	Great city of West Africa, noted in the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries as a center of Islamic scholarship.	15
5645911783	Timur	Turkic warrior created great kingdom in central Asia (1336-1405), also known as Tamerlane, whose efforts to restore the Mongol Empire devastated much of Persia, Russia, and India. Mughal are his descendants.	16