Land-based trade routes that link many regions of Eurasia

Largest sea-based system of exchange before 1500CE. Centered on India and stretched from southern China to eastern Africa

A Malay kingdom that dominated a critical point in India ocean trade.

largest religious structure in the premordern world built by the Angkor kingdom

An East African civilization city-states linked into the Indian Ocean trading network.

A powerful south African state that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast

Chinese admiral who commanded a huge fleet of ships in a series of voyages in the Indian Ocean

A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Saharan trade, which linked interior West Africa to the Mediterranean and North African world.

this animal made trans-Saharan commerce possible

West African civilization

A series of important states that developed in the region stretching from the Atlantic coast to Lake Chad Developed in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade

An early and prominent state within West African civilization. With a reputation for great riches

A prominent west african; it monopolized the import of horses and metals

trans-Saharan slave trade

A fairly small-scale commerce in enslaved people that flourished exporting West African slaves across the Sahara for sale in Islamic North Africa.

A major commercial city of West African civilization and a noted center of Islamic scholarship and education by the sixteenth century.

An academic center for research and translation of foreign texts that was established in Baghdad

A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas; exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas.

Name given to a major process of settlement and societal organization that occurred in the period 860–1130 C.E. among the peoples of Chaco canyon, in what is now northwestern New Mexico notable for its settlement in large pueblos

Professional merchants among the Aztecs

Birth name of the Mongol leader better known as Chinggis Khan

to describe half a century of military campaigns, massive killing, and empire building pursued by Chinggis Khan

Mongol dynasty initiated by Khubilai Khan

Chinese dynasty (that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols

Grandson of Chinggis Khan who became the first il-khan

Major Turkic empire established in Persia in the early sixteenth

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AP world unit 2

Term	Definition
Silk Roads	Land-based trade routes that link many regions of Eurasia
Sea-Roads	Largest sea-based system of exchange before 1500CE. Centered on India and stretched from southern China to eastern Africa
Srivijaya	A Malay kingdom that dominated a critical point in India ocean trade.
Angkor Wat	largest religious structure in the premordern world built by the Angkor kingdom
Swahili civilization	An East African civilization city-states linked into the Indian Ocean trading network.
great zimbabwe	A powerful south African state that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast
Zheng He	Chinese admiral who commanded a huge fleet of ships in a series of voyages in the Indian Ocean
Sand Roads	A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Saharan trade, which linked interior West Africa to the Mediterranean and North African world.
Arabian Camel	this animal made trans-Saharan commerce possible
West African civilization	A series of important states that developed in the region stretching from the Atlantic coast to Lake Chad Developed in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade
Ghana	An early and prominent state within West African civilization. With a reputation for great riches
Mali	A prominent west african; it monopolized the import of horses and metals
trans-Saharan slave trade	A fairly small-scale commerce in enslaved people that flourished exporting West African slaves across the Sahara for sale in Islamic North Africa.
Timbuktu	A major commercial city of West African civilization and a noted center of Islamic scholarship and education by the sixteenth century.
House of wisdom	An academic center for research and translation of foreign texts that was established in Baghdad
american web	A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas; exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas.
Chaco phenomenon	Name given to a major process of settlement and societal organization that occurred in the period 860–1130 C.E. among the peoples of Chaco canyon, in what is now northwestern New Mexico notable for its settlement in large pueblos
pochteca	Professional merchants among the Aztecs
Temujin	Birth name of the Mongol leader better known as Chinggis Khan
Mongol World War	to describe half a century of military campaigns, massive killing, and empire building pursued by Chinggis Khan
Khublai Khan	Grandson of Chinggis Khan
Yuan Dynasty	Mongol dynasty initiated by Khubilai Khan
Ming dynasty	Chinese dynasty (that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols
Hulegu	Grandson of Chinggis Khan who became the first il-khan
Safavid Empire	Major Turkic empire established in Persia in the early sixteenth

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