History 201 Byuh Tueller Final Study

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A still more resonant aspect of his legacy was the uniform rewriting of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, which is still the basis of civil law in many modern states

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Justinian

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had their own legal system and furnished their own protection and mutual aid.

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Hanseatic League

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This term was first used in English in British India (now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) and neighbouring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area

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Monsoon

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An Islamic Scholar (1304-1369) who served as qadi to the sultan of Delhi and offered counsel to Muslim rulers in west Africa.

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Ibn Battuta

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14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty (1370–1405) in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until 1857. AKA Timur

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Tamerlane

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a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem.

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Crusades

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A muslim Polymath, a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. He was born in Córdoba, Al Andalus, modern-day Spain, and died in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Ibn Rushd

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These Norsemen used their famed longships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland, and as far south as Al-Andalus.

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Vikings

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Bubonic Plague also known as

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Justinian Plague

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Prophet of Islam (570-632) and founder of the religion Islam

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Muhammad

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An empire spanning the first to the sixth century C.E. in present-day Cambodia and Vietnam that adopted Sanskrit as its official language.

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Funan

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Association of trading cities in northern Europe linked by major rivers to the Mediterranean.

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Hanseatic League

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"deputy," Islamic leader after the death of Muhammad.

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Caliph

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Customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century

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Vikings

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His school of Philosophy is known as Averroes

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Ibn Rushd

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based on kinship, which is family relationships; generally hereditary through the fathers side, although there are some that trace through the mother's side. It's the traditional way most societies grew, you can still see evidence of this in many countries, especially in rural areas. Growth of cities tended to break up these traditional ties

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Kin-Based Society

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Project that integrated the economies of northern and southern China.

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Grand Canal

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an economic alliance of trading cities and their merchant guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe.

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Hanseatic League

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Muslim Moroccan Berber explorer.
Considered one of the greatest travellers of all time.
Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world, including North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing his near-contemporary Marco Polo.

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Ibn Battuta

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Defender of Aristotelian philosophy against claims from Islamic theologians such as Ghazali who feared that such teachings would become an affront to the teachings of Islam

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Ibn Rushd

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Style of agriculture used by Mexica (Aztecs) in which fertile muck from lake bottoms was dredged and built up into small plots.

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Chinampa

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Sought to revive the Empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire. Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565

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Justinian

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created to protect commercial interests and privileges granted by foreign rulers in cities and countries the merchants visited

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Hanseatic League

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Seventh-century Chinese monk who made a famous trip to India to collect Buddhist texts.

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Xuanzang

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Campaigns by Christian knights to seize the holy lands that led to trade with Muslims and the importation of Muslim ideas regarding science and mathematics.

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Crusades

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His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.

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Thomas Aquinas

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He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia.
Founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire

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Chinggis Khan

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Charles the Great,His rule is also associated with the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture through the medium of the Catholic Church.

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Charlemagne

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Epidemic that swept Eurasia, causing devastating population loss and disruption. Known as the Black Death in Europe after 1350 C.E.

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Bubonic Plague

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Encouraged the worship of Inti—the sun god—and imposed its sovereignty above other cults such as that of Pachamama.

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Inca

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Concept relating to the mixing of political and religious authority, as with the Roman emperors, that was central to the church versus state controversy in medieval Europe.

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Caesaropapism

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Socially significant groups of craftspeople who regulated the production, sale, and quality of manufactured goods.

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Guilds

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Chinese system during the Han dynasty in which the goal was to ensure an equitable distribution of land. After death ownership would be given back to the state and then redistributed. Could not be used as inheritance except for provisions.

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Equal-field system

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Powerful Turkish empire that lasted from the conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453 until 1918 and reached its peak during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566).

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Ottomans

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Chinese dynasty (1279-1368) that was founded by the Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan.

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Yuan Dynasty

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Powerful South American empire that would reach its peak in the fifteenth century during the reigns of Pachacuti Inca and Topa Inca.

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Inca

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Southeast Asian Khmer kingdom (889-1432) that was centered around the temple cities of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat.

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Angkor

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African city-state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to Kilwa and was active in trade.

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Swahili

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As a cultural movement, it encompassed a flowering of literature, science, art, religion, and politics, and a resurgence of learning based on classical sources, the development of linear perspective in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform.

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Renaissance

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Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Also known as Ma Sanbao

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Zheng He

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Bantu ethnic group and culture found in East Africa, mainly in the coastal regions and the islands of Kenya, Tanzania and north Mozambique

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Swahili

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Had been the largest preindustrial city in the world, with an elaborate system of infrastructure connecting an urban sprawl of at least 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) to the well-known temples at its core.

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Angkor

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Large structure in modern Illinois that was constructed by the mound-building peoples; it was the third largest structure in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.

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Cahokia

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Indian emperor who ruled northern India from 606 to 647 AD.
Buddhist convert in a Hindu era united the small republics from Punjab to central India, and they, at an assembly, crowned king in April 606 AD when he was merely 16 years old.

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King Harsha

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Founder of the Mali empire (r. 1230-1255), also the inspiration for the Sundiata, an African literary and mythological work.

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Sundiata

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1st Alii Aimoku of Kauai.

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Mo'ikeha

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Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty (750-1258) that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reaching its peak under Harun al-Rashid.

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Abbasid

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Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis.

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Thomas Aquinas

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Kingdom in West Africa during the fifth through the thirteenth centuries whose rulers eventually converted to Islam; its power and wealth was based on dominating trans-Saharan trade.

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Ghana

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Third Islamic Caliphate

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Abbasid

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His voyage to, and back from, Kahiki—the ancestral homeland of the Hawaiians—is one of the most remembered trans-Pacific voyages in the 12th century.

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Mo'ikeha

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He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of Thomism

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Thomas Aquinas