world history

describe the core beliefs of cunfuncanism

Filisl Piety (respect and obedience to parents and elders)

Hierarchical relationships (rulers and subjects, father and son, husband and wife, man and woman)

Ancestor generation (honoring deceased family members)

Which religion uses the Caste System?

Hinduism

What religions consider karma and reincarnation as a part of their core beliefs?

Hinduism and Buddhism

What are the similarities between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?

Monothestic (belief in one god)

Believe God communatictes through prophets like Moses and others, consider Jerusalema the Holy City, and the belief that actions in life affect what happenes after death.

What are the 5 pillars of Faith in Islam?

Faith declaration

Charity

Daily prayer

Fasting during Ramadan

Pilgrimage to Mecca

Summarize how the Song Dynasty expanded the imperial bureaucracy?

Through meritocracy (individuals are selected and promoted based on their merit or their ability and talent) and government officials were chose through the civil service examination system, which tested knowledge of cinfuciam texts and helped create a class of scholar officials called the gentry.

Which countriess were culturally influenced by China?

Vietnam, Japan, and Korea

What contributed to the Chinese increase in popualtion?

Champa rice

The expansion if the GRand Canal had what effect?

It helped to move goods efficiently which caused the growth of cities and market places

Describe the relationship between the Abbasid caliphs and Sejuk sultans.

Caliphs were religious and political leaders who ruled over the state / government while the Sultans were political and military rulers that ruled over the state / territory

Explain the rise of the Mamluk Sultante

They seized control of Egypt in 1250 and defeated the Mongols at the Battle of Ainjalut in 1260

Why were institutions such as the House of Widsome in Baghdad important to intellectual development in Dar-al Islam?

It preserved and translated classical knowledge from across the world while serving as a center for advancements in science, mathematics, and medicine.

Explins how intellectual innovations developed in Dar-al Islam influenced societies beyond the Islamic world.

They spread through trade and translation movement to Europe and Afro-Eurasia which introduced advanced mathematics, medical textbooks, and paper making technology.

Define syncretism

The blending of traditions

Why did the Bhakti movement appeals to people?

It was a more “easy going”, less rigid, and more mystical interpretation of Hinduism

Explain the spread of Sufism

Encouraged conversion through cultural beldning, created shared spaces where Hindus and Muslims interacted, syncretic practices (mixing Islamic and local traditions)

What methods were used to gain and maintain power in South and Southeast Asia?

Religious Legitimacy, cultural intergation and syncretism, military power and control of territory, controal of trade networks, and urban centers and administrative control

Describe the Incan Mit’a system

A labor tax used to obtain workers for government projects like building roads and bridges, constructing temples and government buildings, mining, serving in the military, and farming state owned land.

What was the purpose of temples such as Templo Mayor?

It was the site large scale sacrifices of emeny warriors which served intertwined political and religious end.

What does archeological evidence show about the Great Zimbabwe?

It shows the Great Zimbabwes connections to long distance trade

What was the impact of the Indian Ocean Trade on Swahili Coast City Staes?

Connected Acricato Asia, a blend of culture combining African traditions, Islamic beliefs, and Arabic influences, wealth, and power.

What was an “island of Christainty” in Africa?

Ethiopia

What led to Mali’s wealth?

They controlled important sections of the Trans Saharan Trade which helped them to gain wealth through gold and salt.

What were the impacts of Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage?

Increased Mali’s reputation throughout Africa, the middle east, and Europe, strength ened diplomatic and economic connections with other Islamic states, and increased interest in west Africa among foreign merchants and scholars.

Describe the relationship between European monarchs and the Catholic Chruch in the time period 1200-1450

European monarchs used the concept of Divine Right to legitimize their rule which lead to a power struggle with the Papacy.

What were the impacts of the Crusades?

They opened up more trade in the Mediterranean sea and new knowledge of inventions and innovations that existed in the Islamic world

Complete the pyramid explaining feudalism.

What led to Europe’s decentralization in the Middle ages?

The feducal system

Decribe the economic developments on the silk roads

Paper money, bills of exchange, credit, bankins systems, and caravanserai

What disease spread on the Silk road?

The black death (bubonic plague)

What technological innovations helped trade on the Silk roads?

Yokes, saddles, strrups, paper making, and printing.

What political systems and ideas were exchanges as a result of the Silk roads?

Military alliances, political partnerships, Chinese tacation systems, Islamic legal traditions, and persian bureaucratic practices.

The map below shows the extent of what empire?

The mongol empire

What trade route did the Mongols protect?

The Silk roads

How did sailors interact with the environment in order to travel on the Indian Ocean efficiently?

They used the knowledge of mansoon winds

What was the impact of diasporic communities?

Islam spread to East Africa, India, and South East Asia, Hinduism and Buddhism spread throughout Southeast Asia, syncretism created new languages, food, clothing style, and architectural designs, and ideas in science, mathematices, navigation, and literature spread between societies.

What technological developments helped trade on the Trans Saharan Trade route?

The camel, iron working, the wheel, and the compass.

Summarize the political impact of the Trans Saharan Trade.

Wealth from trade empowered Mali, Ghana, and Soghai to build strong centralized governments and under military strength, infrastructure, and cultural insitutiond allowing these empires to dominate west AFrica politically. Control over trade routes and cities was essential for taxation and political legitimacy. Adoption of Islam law and culture helped unify divers populations and connect the empires to wider diplomatic and economic networks.

Draw and label the three trade roucres on the map