WHAP vocab

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  1. 2. Chinese title used by the Mongols.
  2. 5. Constructed during the twelfth century, the most stunning architectural expression of Hinduism in the temple complex.
  3. 7. Name given to Europeans.
  4. 10. The Mongols unified China and connected all the regions together.
  5. 12. Communities that were in a position to facilitate commercial exchange among quite different peoples even as they introduced new religious traditions to their host society.
  6. 16. New kinds of Chinese, Indian or Arab ships.
  7. 17. A branch of Buddhism in Japan that incorporated the values of Daoism.
  8. 18. Became the first, il-khan of persia
  9. 19. Personally loyal men to the emperor and they held exquisite power.
  10. 20. A widely spoken in East Africa today, was grammatically an African tongue within the larger Bantu family of languages,
  11. 22. A widely traveled Arab scholar, merchant, and public official.
  12. 24. State approved association of merchants that allowed them to pool their resources.
  13. 27. The method of trade across large networks like the Silk Road, where merchants would travel short distances, selling goods and then returning home, while the goods were passed to other merchants to continue the journey.
  14. 28. A vessel used to gather food during daily alms.
  15. 29. Sponsored an enormous encyclopedia of about 11,000 volumes
  16. 30. Inns or guesthouses located all along the trade routes from the Eastern Mediterranean to China.
  17. 31. Refers to the rise and fall of the Chaco Canyon culture of the Ancestral Puebloans between the 9th and 12th centuries.
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  1. 1. It was an authentically Chinese version of the Indian faith of Buddhism.
  2. 3. The Mongol Capital.
  3. 4. An an agriculturally rich region closely allied with Srivijaya.
  4. 6. A major transformation in agriculture across the Islamic world from roughly the 8th to 13th centuries.
  5. 8. Paper money called flying cash since it could fly.
  6. 9. The Chinese version of Buddhism.
  7. 11. It could go for ten days without water, finally made possible the long trek across the Sahara.
  8. 13. The ruler of Mali, who in 1324 undertook the hajj accompanied by a huge entourage and enormous quantities of gold.
  9. 14. A Great Chinese admiral who commanded a huge fleet of ships in a series of voyages in the Indian Ocean that began in 1405.
  10. 15. A towering victory monument and minaret that showcased the synthesis of Indian and Islamic architectural styles, reflecting the rise of the Delhi Sultanate.
  11. 21. The dominant military tactic for capturing fortified places such as castles and cities.
  12. 23. It became a renowned center of learning, boasting more than 150 lower-level Quranic schools and several major centers of higher education and attracting thousands of students from all over West Africa and beyond.
  13. 25. The name for the bacteria of the black death
  14. 26. West African oral historians, storytellers, praise-singers, and musicians who preserved and transmitted cultural heritage.
  15. 30. A thriving, densely populated urban center to a declining and ultimately abandoned settlement.