AP World History Chapter 7 Strayer Flashcards

8299848143	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
8299848144	Black Death	Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century	1
8299848148	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	2
8299848149	Ibn Battuta	A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century	3
8299848150	Great Zimbabwe	A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast	4
8299848151	Indian Ocean Trade Network	The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce	5
8299848155	Pochteca	Professional merchants among the Aztecs	6
8299848158	Sand Roads	the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa	7
8299848159	Silk Roads	Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia	8
8299848160	Swahili Civilization	An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements	9
8299848161	Srivijaya	A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture	10
8299848162	Venice	An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade	11
8299848163	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	12
8299848164	Third-Wave Civilizations	Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks	13