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- 5. the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
- 7. a yearly tax imposed by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects
- 8. Though historians have been unable to find evidence of long-distance trading networks in the Western Hemisphere before 1492, they assert that some long-distance trading networks existed by pointing to the spread of
- 10. The world's largest sea-based system of communication and exchange . Centered on India, it stretched from southern China to eastern Africa.
- 12. religious ideology that adopted the high moral standards of Buddhism while also returning to the classical texts of Confucianism?
- 18. An East African civilization that emerged in the eighth century c.e. as a set of commercial city-states linked into the Indian Ocean trading network. Combining African Bantu and Islamic cultural patterns, these competing city-states accumulated goods from the interior and exchanged them for the products of distant civilizations.
- 19. Primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim Urban Societies (islamic scholars)
- 20. Chinese empire that was established by Zhu Yuanzhang following the fall of the Yuan dynasty.
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- 1. military operation involving the surrounding and blockading of a town, castle or fortress by an army in the attempt to capture it.
- 2. Huge temple built by the javanese...has religious ties with both hinduism and buddhism
- 3. Mongol dynasty initiated by Khubilai Khan that ruled China
- 4. A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Saharan trade, which linked interior West Africa to the Mediterranean and North African world.
- 6. A Malay kingdom that dominated the critical choke point in Indian Ocean trade at the Straits of Malacca. Like other places in Southeast Asia, Srivijaya absorbed various cultural influences from India.
- 9. Branch of Mahayana Buddhism that the Japanese adopted (based highly on disiplined meditation)
- 11. Birth name of the Mongol leader better known as Chinggis Khan, or "universal ruler," a name he acquired after unifying the Mongols.
- 13. A prominent state within West African civilization;it flourished for several centuries. It monopolized the import of horses and metals as part of the trans-Saharan trade; it was a largescale producer of gold; and its most famous ruler, Mansa Musa, led a large group of Muslims on the pilgrimage to Mecca.
- 14. Office established in sucession to the Prophet Muhammad, to rule the Islamic empire
- 15. Branch of Islam that believed Muslims should choose their own leaders (followed by majority)
- 16. Introduced to North Africa and the Sahara in the early centuries of the Common Era, this animal made trans-Saharan commerce possible.
- 17. Land-based trade routes that linked many regions of Eurasia. They were named after the most famous product traded along these routes.