AP World History Crossword Flashcards

8438561868		Duke of Normandy who invaded and conquered England in 1066	0
8438571556	Great Schism	Separation of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches	1
8438576524	Song	Chinese dynasty that followed the Tang	2
8438581161	Silk Roads	network of trade routes connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean world	3
8438586264	Arabic	language of Islam	4
8438590778		Arabic numerals came from this country	5
8438593510	Salt	At one time, it was worth its weight in gold	6
8438606529	Japan	Mongol invasions were turned back from this country by typhoons	7
8438612525		warriors and traders who traveled down the rivers into early Russia	8
8438615579		Islamic world and the people within	9
8438618276	Mecca	location to which all Muslims pray	10
8438626784	Bedouin	nomadic herders of the Arabian Desert	11
8438631089	Hinduism	majority religion of India (in the past and today)	12
8438634808	Monsoons	winds that blow predictably throughout the Indian Ocean basin	13
8438647959	Bubonic Plague	Also known as the Black Death, devastated Eurasia in the 1300's CE	14
8438653132	Horse	Animal critical to the military success of the Mongols	15
8438661457	Islam	religion born in Arabia in the 600's CE	16
8438670958	Pope	Final authority for the Roman Catholic Church	17
8438674809	Caste System	Rigid social organization in classical India	18
8438684055	Yuan	Chinese dynasty ruled by the Mongols	19
8438688015	Steppe	open grasslands of Southern Russia and Central Asia	20
8438691898	Sufis	mystical missionaries of Islam	21
8438696060	Hagia Sophia	greatest Christian church built by Justinian	22
8438710424	Bantu	group of Sub-Saharan Africans that migrated around the continent, spreading agriculture	23
8438716699	Porcelain	along with silk, one of the two most profitable trade goods coming out of China	24
8438718074	Muhammad	Founder of Islam	25
8438727223	Grand Canal	massive public works project that connected the Huang he and Yangtze Rivers	26
8438734756		Organization that oversaw trade in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages	27
8438743165		Chinese method of allotting land according to individual needs	28
8438807482	Jizya	tax that could be payed by non-Muslims if they didn't want to convert to Islam	29
8438827405	Tours	Battle in 732 that stopped Muslim advance deeper into Western Europe	30
8438844614	Chalemagne	crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 CE	31
8438849790	Hajj	pilgrimage to Mecca	32
8438861256		Denial of Christian sacraments	33
8438862743		guiding principles for Muslims	34
8438868331	Justinian	strongest of the Byzantine Emperors	35
8438876069	Buddhism	religion born in India that traveled with merchants and became prominent in China	36
8438879507	Constantinople	capital of the Byzantine Empire	37
8438881849	Khan	Mongol ruler or king	38
8438885701	Chivalry	code of ethics and conduct of the Middle Ages	39
8438887957		East coast of Africa	40
8438890515		professional Japanese soldiers	41
8438901685	Abbasid	Islamic Caliphate that had is capital in Baghdad and adopted Persian bureaucratic principles	42
8438912818	Golden Horde	Mongol khanate that ruled Russia and parts of Eastern Europe	43
8438941656	Axum	Christian empire founded in Ethiopia	44
8438954857	Crusades	wars fought between Christians and Muslims for control of the holy land	45
8438970334	Ottomans	Islamic invaders who finally conquered Constantinople in 1453	46
8438975189	Mansa Musa	Malian king who gave away tons of gold on his trip to Mecca	47
8438985901		Early versions of labor unions that oversaw business in individual trade sectors	48
8438999703	China	gunpowder was invented in this country	49
8439007130	Umayyad	Islamic Caliphate that had its capital in Damascus and favored Arabs	50
8439009153	Corpus Juris Civilis	Better know as Justinian's code	51
8439014767	Emperor	Final authority for the Eastern Orthodox Church	52
8439023349	Camels	"ships of the desert" prized for their ability to travel long distance over harsh terrain	53
8439063949	Romance Languages	New languages of Western Europe formed from the combination of Latin and Germanic tongues	54
8439118566	Genghis Khan	First Mongol king to unite the tribes and create a Mongol Empire	55
8439140605	Cyril	Missionary who, along with his brother, created a new written language to spread Christianity into Russia	56
8439151545	Quran	Islamic holy book	57