AP World History Chapter 8 Strayer – Flashcards
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American Web
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The network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas. Provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas
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Black Death
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Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century
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Bubonic Plague
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A highly fatal disease spread by fleas, that devastated the Mediterranean world
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Borobudur
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The largest Buddhism monument anywhere in the world. Example of cultural exchange and syncretism
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Jie People
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A nomadic people who controlled much of Northern China in the third and 4th centuries
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Ghana, Mali, Songhay
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A series of important states that developed in the western and central Sudan, in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade
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Ibn Battuta
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A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century
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Great Zimbabwe
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A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast
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Indian Ocean Trade Network
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The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce
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Oasis cities of Central Asia
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Cities such as Merv, Samarkand, Khotan and Dunhuang that became centers of trans-Eurasian trade
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Sailendra
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a kingdom of central Java that flourished from the 8th century to the 10th century
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Monsoons
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Alternating wind currents that blew eastward across the Indian Ocean in the summer and westward during the winter
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Pochteca
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Professional merchants among the Aztecs
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Malaysians
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Speakers of Austronesian languages from what is now Indonesia who became major traders in Southeast Asia and Madagascar
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Sudan
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A large region of West Africa that became part of a major exchange circuit
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Sand Roads
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the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa
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Silk Roads
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Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia
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Swahili Civilization
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An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements
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Srivijaya
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A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture
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Venice
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An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade
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trans-Saharan slave trade
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A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the 12th century with west African slaves captured in raids being exported across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants in Islamic North Africa
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Third-Wave Civilizations
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Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks
