AP World - Strayer Chapter 3 Vocab

Silk Roads

land-based trade routes that linked many regions of Eurasia and were named after the most famous product traded along these routes

Sea Roads

world’s largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 that was centered in India and stretched from southern China to eastern Africa

Srivijaya

Malay kingdom that dominated the narrow and crucial passage in Indian Ocean trade at the Straits of Malacca between year 670 and 1025 

Angkor Wat

the LARGEST religious structure in the premodern world built by the Angkor kingdom in the 12th century that was later used by Buddhists to express Hindu understanding of the cosmos, AKA the home of the Hindu gods

Swahili Civilization

East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century as a set of city-states that linked into the Indian Ocean trading network and combined African Bantu and Islamic cultural patterns

Great Zimbabwe

powerful state in the Southern African interior that emerged from growing trade in gold to the Eastern African coast, flourishing between 1250 and 1350

Zheng He

Great Chinese admiral who commanded a huge fleet of ships in a series of voyages in Indian Ocean from 1405 - 1433 that intended to enroll distant people and states into the Chinese tribute system

Sand Roads

term used to describe routes of trans-Saharan trade, which linked interior West Africa to the Mediterranean and North African world

West African civilization

series of important states that developed from the Atlantic Coast to Lake Chad from 500 to 1600

Ghana

state in Western African civilization that flourished between 170 to 1076 that had a repuation for great riches and was later absorbed into the Kingdom of Mali

Mali

state in Western African civilization that obtained the import of horses and metals, established in 1235

trans-Saharan slave trade

small-scale commerce in enslaved people that flourished from 1100 - 1400, exporting West African slaves across the Sahara for sale in Islamic North Africa

Timbuktu

major city flourishing in trade in a West African civlization and a noted center of Islamic scholarship and education by the 16th century

House of Wisdom

academic center for research and translation of foreign texts, established in Baghdad in 830 by the Abbasid caliphate al-Mamun

American web

term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas, providing a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large area