Pre AP World Review Quiz 3 Prep

Mongols

Created the largest land empire in history

Yasa

Mongol law code

Jagatai Khanate

Khanate located in central Asia

~known for open trade policy

Helegu

Grandson of Chinggis Khan (ca. 1217-1265) who became the first il-khan (subordinate khan) of Persia.

Ghana

First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast. gold and salt trade.

Ghana, Mali, Songhai

• West African kingdoms that built wealth and power through trans-Saharan trade of salt and gold

Caravanserai

inn or rest station for caravans

Timbuktu

Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning

gunpowder

Invented within China during the 9th century, this substance was became the dominate military technology used to expand European and Asian empires by the 15th century. - used by the Moroccans to defeat Songhai

Axum

The Christian state in Africa that developed its own branch of Christianity, Coptic Christianity, because it was cut off from other Christians due to a large Muslim presence in Africa.

Arab merchants

founders of Axum

Zimbabwe

a country of southern Africa. Various Bantu peoples migrated into the area during the first millennium, displacing the earlier San inhabitants - developed along the Zambezi River

Mogadishu, Sofala, Zanzibar

Swahili trading states of East Africa

Delhi Sultanate

(1206-1526 CE) The successors of Mahmud of Ghazni mounted more campaigns, but directed their goals to creating this empire. Muslim minority control over the Hindu majority

African trade goods

ivory and slaves

Khmer Empire

Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia; featured large rice paddies supported by a sophisticated irrigation system

Olmecs

The first civilization to appear in Mexico. Context for the Maya and Aztecs

Jaguars

Animal that figured prominently in Mesoamerican religion

Stelae

Aztec altars

Altitude farming

Inca skill (different crops grow at different altitudes)

Khipu

cords of knotted strings used during the Inca empire for keeping accounts and recording events

mit'a

Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.

Humanism

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

Johannes Gutenberg

German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)

Protestantism

a form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church

Martin Luther

a German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices.

Council of Trent Affirmations

Salvation through faith and good works; sales of indulgences forbidden; belief in 7 sacraments strengthened

Council of Trent

A meeting of Roman Catholic leaders, called by Pope Paul III to rule on doctrines criticized by the Protestant reformers. Part of the Catholic Counter Reformation

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