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47 Cards in this Set
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What is a quipu? |
Inca bureaucrats and administrators relied on a mnemonic aid to keep track of their responsibilities by tying knots in the small chords. |
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What is the chinampa system? |
It was an extremely fertile, dredging practice that allowed for very productive agriculture for the Aztecs |
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Oceania |
long distance trades; sweet potato cultivation; oral history traditions that were conveyed between the different Islands |
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What is the largest early Meso-American city? |
Teotihuacan |
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Who was at the top of the Aztec social hierarchy? |
military elite were at the top |
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Aztec human sacrifice is essential to what? |
The fertilization of the world and its very survival. The rise of the sun the next day depended on human sacrifice. |
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Who is Ibn Battuta? |
He was a cadi, a legal expert and judge of Islamic law and he traveled throughout the world because his expertise in law made him a very welcomed guest. He was welcomed to spread Islamic Law and to settle disputes. |
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Zheng He |
muslim eunuch; chinese admiral who made seven journeys of exploration in tributary trade |
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Hongwu emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted what? |
wanted to cast his empire in the mold of the earlier traditional dynasties, especially the Han Dynasty |
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Marco Polo spent 20 years in the court of the UN dynasty for what emperor? |
Kublai Khan.
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Tezcatlipoca is known as? |
The God of the Warriors; The Smoking Mirror |
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What was Rabban Salma supposed to do? |
he is supposed to invite the Europeans to join the Persian Ilkhans against the Muslims; kind of military religious ambassador |
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What allowed the rise of powerful states in 15th century Europe? |
It was due to increased taxes and increased standing armies |
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Spread of Mongol control also laid the political foundation for a surge in what? |
long distance trades in the Eurasian land mass |
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Who was the major figure of scholasticism and what was the key elements of scholasticism? |
Thomas Aquinas was a major performer of this; it synthesized the early humanistic traditions of Greece (philosophy and Christian theology) |
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Medieval European social structure (the clergy, the nobility, and the peasantry) were what? |
Those who pray, those who fight, and those who work |
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Medieval Italy is made up of what? |
city-states and principalities, not a highly centralized government |
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Swahili city-states (along the Eastern coasts of Africa) were major players in what? |
They were major players in trade, but they did not have a high centralized governing system |
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Early Bantu societies in Sub-Saharan Africa governed themselves mainly through what? |
family and kinship groups, not with a high centralized governing system |
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1279 Kublai Khan proclaimed what dynasty in China? |
The UN Dynasty |
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Nobility in Nomadic Society was rigid or fluid? |
Fluid; you can move up or down through society |
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The humanists moral philosophers had big important contribution on what? |
the idea that you can lead a moral, virtuous life while being in the Lei community within the Christian world |
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What was The Zanj Revolt? |
an early African slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate in Mesopotamia (today Iraq) |
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Who led the Zanj Revolt? |
Ali bin Muhammad against the Abbasid masters of these slaves |
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What's the language that unites the people of Sub-Saharan Africa, African South of the equator in about 1,000? |
Bantu |
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Who was Tamberlane? |
he's a late 14th century Turkish ruler and is important in weakening the Golden Horde; sacked Delhi |
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Who created the largest empire of all time? |
The Mongols |
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Who were The Mongols? |
led indirectly with the leaders of allied tribes, was not a tightly structured imperial frame work, and they formed new military units breaking up tribal affiliation |
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Kongo is what? |
the most tightly centralized 14th century bantu kingdoms |
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What was the name of the founder of the Kingdom of Mali, known as "The Lion Prince"? |
Sundiata |
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William of Normandy, in 1066, conquered what place? |
England |
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The reconquista occurred in what geographic area? |
The Iberian Peninsula |
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Who liked the troubadours and what did they inspire? |
aristocratic women paid them to write beautiful poems and songs; inspired by Islamic love poetry as was their music |
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Karakorum was the center of what group? |
The Mongols |
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gender relations in nomadic society |
women enjoyed much more mobility and authority within nomadic societies than their counterparts in agrarian societies |
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By the 10th century, the Kings of Ghana had converted to what religion? |
Islam |
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In Axom (today Ethiopia) retained aspects of what beliefs? |
African beliefs even as the local people that adopted Christianity |
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The Waldensians, Bogomils, and Cathars are all Christians that advocated what? |
modest and simple lives, and they were persecuted as heratics |
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What made the Mongols so terrifying militarily? |
mounted archery and cavalry |
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The most powerful state in West Africa is what? |
Ghana |
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What does Swahili mean? |
coasters; east coast of Africa |
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Council of Clermont in 1095 does what? |
urban sends the Christian knights off in a holy war to seize Jerusalem |
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ali'inui are what? |
high chiefs |
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Who were the Mexica? |
Aztecs who are migrants who move to Mexico
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Who were the Calpulli? |
communal groups in Aztec society |
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What were the names of the Mexica Gods? |
Tezcatlipoca Quetzalcóatl Huitzilopochtli |
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What was the capital of the Incan empire? |
Cuzco |
