AP World History Vocab ch. 9 Flashcards

11876087743	Silk Road	An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea extending some 6,440 km (4,000 mi) and linking China with the Roman Empire. Marco Polo followed the route on his journey to Cathay.	0
11876091945	Parthians	Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.	1
11876091946	stirrup	device for securing a horseman's feet, enabling him to wield weapons more effectively. First evidence of the use of stirrups was among the Kushan people of northern Afghanistan in approximately the first century C.E.	2
11876126419	Sogdian Merchants	People of central Asia who maintained stability and access of the silk road around 300-600 CE.	3
11876146115	Indian Ocean Maritime System	A network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia	4
11876150921	trans-Saharan caravan routes	Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara.	5
11876154943	caravenserai	a roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey	6
11876165896	Sahel	a strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas	7
11876171796	Sub-Saharan Africa	Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.	8
11876171797	Steppes	Treeless plains, especially the high, flat expanses of northern Eurasia, which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.	9
11876175204	Savanna	An area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes	10
11876175205	tropical rain forest	hot, wet biome with year-round humidity; contains Earth's most diverse species of plants and animals	11
11876179105	Bantu/Bantu Migration	a group of people and a family of languages that originated towards Northern Africa and began to spread; moved into sub-Saharan Africa; brought agriculture and iron smelting throughout Africa	12
11876186198	Nestorians	A Christian sect found in Asia; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule; cut off from Europe by Muslim invasions	13
11876190922	Armenia	One of the earliest Christian kingdoms, situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the early 20th century.	14
11876190924	Ethiopia	A Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalaibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa	15
11876201010	Copts/Coptic Christians	an ethnoreligious group indigenous to Northeast Africa who primarily inhabit the area of modern Egypt, where they are the largest Christian denomination in the country	16
11876209416	Axum	The Christian state in Africa that developed its own branch of Christianity, Coptic Christianity, because it was cut off from other Christians due to a large Muslim presence in Africa.	17
11876212321	Polynesian Migrations	mariners with canoes who migrated to Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, Marquesas, and Easter Island	18