mini unit 3 quiz

Yucatan Peninsula

Maya, Mesoamerican people that established a series of city- states in the ________ and the greater modern Mexico, Guatemala, & Belize area.

Swahili coast

________, the city formed part of a trade network extending as far as China.

Swahili

________ city- states, City where gold+ivory where exported from.

Silk Road

Samarkand, city that prospered from its location on the ________ between China and the Mediterranean.

Mongolian

________ and Turkic horseback riders, formed the backbone of the Empire's military, and their tactics- centered on encirclement and faux- retreats- devastated enemy armies.

Champa

________ kingdoms, collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is today central and southern Vietnam from 2nd- 19th century CE.

Khmer Empire Angkor Empire

________, existed as a Hindu- Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia from 802- 1431 CE.

Solomonic dynasty

________, governed the Ethiopian Empire; the empires of Ethiopia were, and remain, largely Christian with a sizable Islamic minority.

Mongolian Empire

________, emerged from the unification of several nomadic tribes in the Mongol homeland.

Majapahit Empire

________, maritime Empire in Southeast Asia that was largely responsible for the fall of the Srivijaya in 1290.

Great Zimbabwe

________, city in the south- eastern hills of Zimbabwe; it was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe- a kingdom that thrived due to trading native gold and ivory.

Zagwe dynasty

________, ruled many parts of present- day Ethiopia and Eritrea between the early 12th and late 13th century until their defeat at the hands of the Solomonic dynasty in 1270 AD.

Great Zimbabwe,city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe; it was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe

a kingdom that thrived due to trading native gold and ivory