Ap world strayer chapter 3

silk roads

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

Sea routes

the world's largest sea based system of communication and exchange before 1500 CE centered in India, it stretched from Southern China to Eastern Africa

Srivijaya

Malay Kingdom that dominated the critical choke point in Indian Ocean trade at the straits of Malacca between 670 to 1025 CE. Like other places in Southeast Asia Srivijaya absorbed various cultural influences from 

Angkor Wat

The largest religious structure in the pre-modern world this Temple was built by the powerful Angkor Kingdom in the 12th century CE to impress Hindu understanding of the cosmos centered on a mythical Mount Peru the home of the Gods in Hindu tradition, it was later used by Buddhists as well 

Swahili civilization

an East African civilization that emerged in the 8th Century CE as a set of commercial city-states linked into the Indian Ocean Trading Network combining African bantu and Islamic cultural patterns, these competing city-states accumulated gods from the interior and exchange them for the products of distant civilizations

Great Zimbabwe

A powerful state in southern African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the Eastern African coast, it flourished between 1,250 and 1350 CE 

Zheng He

Great Chinese admiral who commanded a huge Fleet of ships in a series of voyages in the Indian Ocean that began in 1405 ce, intended to enroll distant peoples and states in the Chinese tribute system, these voyages ended abruptly in 1433 and led to no lasting Chinese Imperial presence in the region

Sand roads

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

West African civilization

a series of important states that developed in the region stretching from the Atlantic coast to Lake Chad in the period 500 to 1,600 CE, developed in response to the economic Opportunities of Trans-Saharan trade, it included states of Ghana Maui Shanghai and kanem, as well as numerous towns and cities

Ghana

an early and prominent state within West African civilization. With a reputation for great riches, Ghana flourished between 750 and 1076 CE and was later absorbed into the larger Kingdom of Mali

Mali

a prominent state within West African civilization, it was established in 1,235 CE and flourished for several centuries. Mali monopolized the import of horses and medals as part of the Trans-Saharan trade, it was a large-scale producer of gold, and its most famous ruler Mansa Musa, who let a large group of Muslims on the pilgrimage to Mecca

Trans Saharan slave trade

a fairly small-scale commerce and enslaved people that flourished especially from 1100 to 1,400 exporting West African slaves across the Sahara for sale and Islamic North Africa

Timbuktu

a major commercial City in West African Civilization and a noted Center of Islamic scholarship and education by the 16th century

House of wisdom

an academic center for research and translation of foreign texts that was established in Baghdad in 830 CE by the Abbasid caliph Al Manum

American web 

a term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-columbian America's, although less densely woven that the afro-eurasian trade networks, this web nonetheless provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas