AP World History Chapter 7 Strayer Flashcards

11128929049	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
11128929050	Black Death	Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century	1
11128929051	Bubonic Plague	A highly fatal disease spread by fleas, that devastated the Mediterranean world	2
11128929052	Borobudur	The largest Buddhism monument anywhere in the world. Example of cultural exchange and syncretism	3
11128929053	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
11128929054	Ibn Battuta	A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century, including the Sand Roads, Silk Roads, and Sea Roads	5
11128929055	Great Zimbabwe	A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast	6
11128929056	Indian Ocean Trade Network	The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce	7
11128929057	Monsoons	Alternating wind currents that blew eastward across the Indian Ocean in the summer and westward during the winter	8
11128929058	Pochteca	Professional merchants among the Aztecs	9
11128929059	Sand Roads	the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa	10
11128929060	Silk Roads	Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia	11
11128929061	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
11128929062	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
11128929063	Venice	An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade	14
11128929064	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
11128929065	Third-Wave Civilizations	Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks	16
11128929066	Buddhism	Religion that started in Northern India but spread to other parts of Asia via the Silk Roads	17
11128929067	Byzantine Empire	Christian empire centered on Constantinople, which grew out of the Eastern Roman Empire. Very powerful due to its connections to the Silk Roads.	18
11128929068	Mahayana Buddhism	Form of Buddhism that was most popular along the Silk Roads, emphasizing compassion and Buddha being a deity.	19
11128929069	Luxury Goods	Main type of goods that were traded along the Silk Roads.	20
11128929070	Steppes	Grasslands in North-Central Asia in which nomadic people like the Huns, Mongols, and Xiongnu inhabited.	21
11128929071	Fleas on Rats	The Black Death spread across Eurasia through these two animals... (think about the song)	22
11128929072	Islam	Most dominant religion of traders along the Indian Ocean Trade Network after 1000 CE	23
11128929073	Angkor Wat	Largest religious structure in the world, it was built off the Hindu view of the cosmos. Today it is a Buddhist temple in Cambodia	24
11128929074	Marco Polo	Famous European explorer who traveled along the Silk Roads to China.	25
11128929075	Xiongnu	Nomadic people north of China that frequently raided and interacted with Chinese people, occasionally bringing the decline of empires (Mulan's villain)	26
11128929076	West Africa	Region that imported salt in exchange for gold and slaves	27
11128929077	Smallpox and measles	Disease that spread along the Silk Roads that helped contribute to the fall of both the Roman and the Han Empires	28
11128929078	Abbasid Empire	The horrible conditions of the thousands of African slaves on plantations and in salt mines led to a massive slave revolt that brought down which Muslim Empire?	29
11128929079	Indianization	Spread of Indian culture to Southeast Asia, such as a writing system, art, and god-kings.	30
11128929080	Bulk Goods	The majority of the type of goods traded along the Indian Ocean Trade Network, mostly due to the ability to take heavy loads on ships	31