HIST 1110 - Survey of World History Ch 10 "Worlds Together Worlds Apart" Final Exam

HIST 1110 - Survey of World History Ch 10 "Worlds Together Worlds Apart" Final Exam

Why did sea routes become more prominent? (Maritime revolution)

Big ships could carry more, and it was cheaper and easier to transport this way, especially with the Chinese compass. Seaport cities were called Entrepots.

What happened between the Sunnis and Shiites once climate change happened?

When Turks came into the Islamic empire, the empire had a hard time uniting them all. At first, Shiia Islam was prevailing, but that fell and Sunnis became the majority.

Why did Sufism form?

Because of the new diversity of the Islamic empire, a new religion could form, even if it was a mystical type. Now, Islam was becoming universal.

What did the Turks do when they traveled into India?

They formed the Delhi Sultantae and united India. Before that, the groups were all fighting. Now, they were united and the 2 main religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, were mixing.

What characterized Song China?

Here, a piston system created iron, they were agrarian and used water buffalos. They also created gunpowder. They were the ones with the first manufacturing revolution. Northern nomads threatened their existence. Chinese identity was formed, and outsiders were not Chinese according to them.

What happened to Christian Europe when the Vikings came?

Peasants were forced to work for lords and worked in awful conditions, as there was now no centralized power. It supposedly removed the "barbarian" status of the invaders. Some escaped to Russia and based a new society on the Byzantines.

How did Christianity help the formation of Europe?

Christianity was the thing that united + created the concept of Europe. They banded together to take back their land from the Muslims through Crusades, but that did not do much, other than take some outer cities. The heart of Islam was in places like Baghdad.

How did the Mande people connect Africa to the rest of the world?

These people did a lot of trading. They were succeeded by the Mali empire, which had horses as a status symbol. With all this new trade, slavery flourished in the Islamic world.

What was the first South American empire?

The Chimu were an empire that was based on agriculture and they traded a lot.

How did the Toltecs transform the declined Teotihuacan society?

These people opened new trade networks and created large pyramids.

What was an influential North American city, and what were they known for?

Cahoika was known for long distance trading. Eventually, deforestation ruined them.

What two activities connected more isolated areas of the world to the more developed world?

Urbanization and Commercial Exchange connected these worlds.

What was the spread of the Mongol influence?

These people expanded trade, even took over the Abbasids, and they formed the Yuan dynasty in China. The culture there was not uprooted. They died out by plague and the vassal states ended up becoming independent from the closest thing to a "world empire".