APWH Unit 1 Vocabulary and Maps

Match the following

• honoring of ancestors; essential to Confucianism

• Neo-Confucianism

• a sign of increased patriarchy and control of women during this "golden age" of China

• Buddhism Branches (Mahayana and Theravada)

• remembered as a "golden age" of technological innovation and economic growth

• Song Dynasty

• A philosophy that revived old ways of thinking while adding Buddhist and Doaist elements

• Foot Binding

• One sect believed the religious leader was divine the other sect did not

• Filial Piety

Match the following

• the rule or reign by a chief Muslim ruler (mainly political, less religious rule)

• Sutanate

• the rule or reign by a chief Muslim ruler (both a political and religious rule)

• Caliphate

• a form of Islamic mysticism, followers were important in the spread of Islam in conquered lands

• Syncretism

• the combination of different forms of belief or practice

• Abbasid Caliphate

• Dynasty of Muslim rulers with its capitol in Baghdad, became fragmented in 1258

• Sufism

Match the following

• a medieval Indian Empire that covered much of the southernmost part of South Asia (India)

• House of Wisdom in Baghdad

• major Turkic Muslim state established in northern India in 1206

• Vijayanagar Empire

• a group of Turks who migrated into Southwest/Central Asia, converted to Islam and founded an empire

• Sultanate of Delhi

• a center of Islamic discovery in many fields of study, important in the translation movement

• Bhakti Movement

• a significant religious movement in medieval Hinduism, focus on devotion to achieve salvation

• Seljuk Turks

Match the following

• an empire in Mesoamerica that conquered neighboring groups, capitol of Tenochtitlan

• Maya

• a major Javanese, maritime, Hindu-Buddhest empire in Southeast Asia

• Majapahit

• a major Indonesian maritime empire in Southeast Asia, a major center of Mahayana Buddhism

• Angkor Wat

• an ethnolinguistic group of interconnected yet indpendent city states in Mesoamerica

• Srivijaya

• a massive temple (originally Hindu but transformed into Buddhist) in the Khmer Empire

• Aztecs (Mexica)

Match the following

• a mandatory service in the Inca empire, a type of tribute/tax to the government in the form of labor

• Chinampas

• an agricultural technique used to grow crops on steep sloped by creating flat steps

• Mit'a

• a large empire built by the Quecha-speaking people on the coast of Peru in South America

• Incans (Tawantinsuyu)

• a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture, also known as floating gardens

• Tenochtitlan

• the metropolitan capitol of the Aztec Empire, with a population of 150,000-200,000 people.

• Terrace Farming

Match the following

• some states (found in Nigeria today) that thrived as part of the trans-Saharan trade network

• Hausa Kingdoms

• the migration of people speaking this language from central Africa out across sub-Saharan Africa

• Great Zimbabwe

• a Christian state in Africa, fought with many of the nearby Islamic states, remained independent

• Bantu Migrations

• a medieval city/kingdom, connected to the growing trade of gold, Indian Ocean trade network

• Ethiopia

• diverse group of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa from before the arrival of Arabs

• Berbers

Match the following

• system where a landowner(lord) gave a fief(land) in return for a promise of loyalty from a vassal

• Serfdom

• a form of government in which a person is head of state for life (often hereditary)

• Monarchy

• a system where peasants belonged to a piece of land, form of coerced labor

• Feudalism

Match the following

• the surviving Eastern half of the Roman Empire. capitol of Constantinople, Eastern Orthodoxy

• Byzantine Empire

• a series of "holy wars" waged by the Roman Catholic Church and European against Muslims in SW Asia

• Little Ice Age

• a document establishing a set of rights for lords in England, signed by King John of England

• Magna Carta

• A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era

• Crusades

Place the following labels where they belong.

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Oceania

Europe

The Americas (S)

Asia

The Americas (N)

Africa

Click on the following region:

West Africa