World History Unit 0, Mini Unit I Review: Notebooks I-IV

Byzantines & Islam & Post-Classical China & Mongols

This dynasty expanded China’s boarders far to the west and saw a flourishing of art and culture.

Tang Dynasty

This religion was considered a foreign threat to Chinese societal harmony and persecuted, sacked, and largely destroyed in China by the Tang Dynasty through a series of edicts to help fund military ventures.

Buddism

This Dynasty reunited the Han peoples of China under one ruler in 581 CE and undertook large scale building projects.

Sui Dynasty

The system by which Chinese government official s were chosen by merit instead of solely by what family connections they had.

Confucian Examination System

This devastating rebellion against the Tang dynasty of China that intended to replace it with the Yan dynasty.

An Lushan

A revitalized philosophical and culture practice championed by Han Yu and others during the Tang Dynasty.

Neo-Confucianism

This dynasty was the first to seek out maritime trade and created the first standing navy, but was ultimately defeated by the Mongols in 1279 CE.

Song Dynasty

Name three different innovations made by China during the Song Dynasty.

Paper money, Gunpowder, True North Compass

The system which the Imperial Chinese government extracted money and resources from foreign states it had subjugated militarily and diplomatically.

Tribute System

This was the name of the Mongol-led dynasty that ruled China in the 13th-14th century.

Yuan

This was the son of the founder of the Mongolian Empire who led unprecedented invasions and conquests by the Mongols in all directions.

Ogedai

This was the descendent of the original Great Khan who eventually conquered the entirety of Song China in the late 13th century

Kublai Khan

Name the four political entities Genghis Khan’s empire was split into.

Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate, Ilkhanate, Yuan Dynasty.

These were the vast trade networks of central and western Asian that were reinvigorated by Mongol conquest and unification.

Silk Road

This was the ‘explosive’ innovation developed in Song China that spread throughout Afro-Eurasia following the Mongol conquests and renewal of interregional trade.

gunpowder

This was the name for the form on government, for both the Mongolian Empire and its various fragmented polities in the Golden Horde, Ilkhanate, Chagatai, and Yuan Dynasty, that was ruled by a high military leader in which subjects an vassals paid tribute and provided military and labor services to the Mongols.

Khanates

This was the era in which many tribes and peoples, such as the Goths, Germans, Huns, Avars, Slavs, and other, moved within and into Europe, causing great disruption to the Roman Empire.

Migration Period

This was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire until its capture by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 CE.

Constantinople

This is the name of the Persian Empire that functioned as the archrivals to the Romans Empire from the 3rd and 7th centuries CE.

Sassanid Dynasty

This was the name of one of the legal policies that formed the basis for modern legal institutions and practices.

Code of Justinian

Along with Cyril, This missionary is famous for spreading Christianity into Sothern and Eastern Europe and is credited for the conversion of the Slavic Peoples.

Methodius

This is the name given by historians to the primarily Greek-run Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of Rome to Ostrogoths in 485 CE.

Byzantine Empire

This is the famous Roman emperor who created a new capital and moved his administration there to be closer to their eastern Persian rivals, and legalized Christianity in the Roman empire in 313 CE.

Constantine

This was an imperial dynasty of Chinas that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. It was the first in world history to issue banknotes or true paper money nationally and the first Chinese government to establish a standing navy.

Song Dynasty

This was an emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China known mainly in modern times for the religious persecutions that occurred during his reign.

Wuzong

This was a civil testing system in Imperial China for selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.

Imperial examination system.

This is the longest artificial river in the world. Starting in Beijing, it passes through many regions to connect with the city of Hangzhou, thus linking the Yellow River and the Yantze River.

Grand Canal

This is the name of the text which contains the foundation documents and doctrines of Islam.

Quran

This is the name of the political, social, religious and military entity that expanded rapidly from 632-661 CE and conquered the weakened Sassanid Empire, as well as took roughly half of Byzantine territory before giving way to factional Arab conflicts.

Rashidun Caliphate

This was the term used to described the status of second-class citizenship for the ‘protected’ peoples of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity within Muslim States.

Dhimmi

These were the peoples which most-profoundly influences Arab central administration and culture

Persians

According to Islam, this is the prophet that codified its core beliefs and began a series of conquests in Arabia during the early 7th century CE.

Muhammad

This is the name of the religious political, social military leader of Islam

Caliph

This is the name for the foundational practices of Islam which include acknowledgement of the one God & final prophet, fasting during Ramadan, almsgiving, prayer five times per day, and pilgrimage to the Kaaba.

Five Pillars

This was the name of the political, social, religious and military entity that emerged from internal conflict and continued Arab expansion into North African, Spain, Central Asia, and South Asia from 661-750 CE.

Umayyad Caliphate

This was the name of the political, social religious, and military entity that revolted and won against the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 750-1258 CE from its capital in Baghdad, and continuing until complete dissolution in the early 16th century.

Abbasid Caliphate

This was the tax that applied to non-Muslims in Muslim Sstates

jizya

This is the emperor who reconquered the Western Roman Empire in the 6th century and issued several legal policies and reforms that set the foundations for modern legal institutions and practices.

Justinian

This is the name of the Persian Empire that functioned as the Archrival to the Roman Empire from the 3rd to 7th centuries CE.

Sassanid Dynasty