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| Akbar | It exstended the reach of the mugal empire |
| Akbar | It exstended the reach of the mugal empire |
| Mayans | They were mostly known for farming on the ycattan and made the farming style of the burn and slash, they came before the aztects and were an advanced civilization who |
| Mansa Musa | Was the richest man in the world and went on a jorney that lasted a year and brought a lot of foreners to mali to exsperence the riches |
| Ghana | Trading post |
| Mali | Was known for many gold resorces, |
| Compare and contrast Christianity and Islam | The founders were God, Mahamud, Book related to religon was the Bible and the Quatr, Place of worship church, Mosque, Holy city both jeruselum, path to heaven do good in life forgive, someone must pass the day of resuraection to go to the path |
| What happened when mahamud died | Their was a split betoween people the Shitte and the Sunnies. The umayyad dynasty was made by the Sunnies |
| How did the muslum preserve anichent knowlange | They gathered the text, traslate it to arabic, enterpret it, chalange it, and share it through cities - in bagdad |
| How were the Tang and Song dynasty golden ages in china | They both had many achivements and both had many inovative things going on |
| What did the silk road, trans saharan, and indian ocean basin ideas, items, and what imact it had on other civilizations | Silk road had small items, spread ideas of herbs, astrology and religon, had an imact by having multicuktural cities, and new inventions Trans saharan had ivoery and gold, ideas of islam, spread arabic indian ocean basin had spices, silk, gun powder, jewels, textiles, minerals, glass, wine, gold, and slaves, spread reliogon languages, and cultures |
| Exsaples of selective borrowing from Japan and Korea | Japan took language and the civial service exam Korea took Kangi or caligraphy |
| Cultural achivements from the Mayan, Aztects, Incas | Maya practiced the burning and slashing of the enviroment, or that they adjustied to the ycatan river and had to live with it, they also had hydrolic engeneering Aztects had the ball game, hadhuge cities with temples, feice warriors, and a good rulling goverment Inca were multi ehtnic, had no writing, they built cities on the mountins, they freeze dried food, made bridges, and would work on brain surgery |
| Reasons why africa denyed their own hisotry | They denied it themselfs, they converted to islam and they forgot everything the story tellers slowly vanished and the stories of their history was erased |
| Mesoamerica | Where the mayan and aztects used to live, above mexico |
| Maize | Cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob |
| Mayans | They were mostly known for farming on the ycattan and made the farming style of the burn and slash, they came before the aztects and were an advanced civilization who made invented hydrolic engeneering |
| Aztects | They were known for their feirce warriors and huge cities, they had a popular ball game where one could not use their hands and not touch the ground |
| Chinampas | Was a man builkt island of plants liek a hydrolic system that the mayans made |
| Quipu | An ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways looks like a long neaklace |
| Muhammad | Made the islam religon |
| Mecca | A city that was the birthplace of mahamud and the holiest city of islam |
| Kaaba | It is known as Allahs residence or house of god |
| Hijra | Born male but look and dress in traditionally feminine ways |
| Quran | Islam holy book |
| Mosques | Muslum house of worship |
| Five Pillars | One god, pray 5 times a day, give to the poor, fast, and go to mecca |
| Hajj | The pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim must make at least once in their lifetime if they are able |
| Jihad | Arabic word for stuggling or effort |
| Caliph | A muslim leader |
| Umayyad | A decendant of madamad or umayad founded this and this was rulled by the sunnies |
| Abbasid | A decendant from mahamud took revenge on the umayyad and killed the remainng decndants, one survived and made the abbasid |
| Baghdad | A place where scholors would come together |
| Jizya | Tax that the muslim paid to their ruller |
| Cordoba | It was a trading place |
| Swahili Coast | Used for cultual blending and trading between east afica and the outside world |
| Mughal | Was known for its art |
| Akbar | It exstended the reach of the mugal empire |
| Tributary states | A state that is subordinate to another more powerful state |
| Civil Service examinations | A test that depermis what your cival servie job would be |
| Genghis Khan | A leared who founded the mongol empire and made one of the largest empires in the world |
| Kublai Khan | He was the emperior of the yuan dynasty and made popular the dual princible |
| Pax mongolica | A period of stablility under the mongolian emprie |
| Celadon | A bluey green jade color in pottery |
| Selective borrowing | A culutre borrowing anothers culutre and incorperating it in their daily practices |
| Yuan & Ming dynasties | Both exported huge amounts of goods on the Silk Road, the network of trade connections that linked China with faraway Europe, and grew rich from the exchange. |