Chapter 3 Key Terms Flashcards
Land-based trade routes that connected various regions across Asia and beyond. These routes facilitated cultural, commercial, and technological exchanges among civilizations.
Silk Roads
Trade routes across the Indian Ocean that facilitated maritime commerce and cultural exchanges.
These routes connected regions from Southern China to Eastern Africa.
Sea Roads
A Malay kingdom that was a critical trade hub at the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 C.E. It absorbed various cultural influences from India and Southeast Asia.
Srivijaya
A temple complex in Cambodia that represents a Hindu understanding of the cosmos.
It is one of the largest religious monuments in the world.
Angkor Wat
A series of city-states along the East African coast that engaged in trade across the Indian Ocean.
This civilization was influenced by Arab and Persian cultures.
Swahili Civilization
A powerful state in Southern Africa that emerged from trade in gold to the East African coast, flourishing between 1250 and 1350 C.E.
It is known for its impressive stone structures.
Great Zimbabwe
A Great Chinese admiral who commanded a fleet of ships on voyages across the Indian Ocean.
His expeditions expanded Chinese presence and trade in the region.
Zheng He
Trade routes that connected North Africa to West Africa across the Sahara Desert.
These routes facilitated the exchange of goods such as gold and salt.
Sand Roads
A series of states that developed from 500 to 1600 C.E. in response to economic opportunities.
These states stretched from the Atlantic coast to Lake Chad.
West African Civilization
A powerful state that flourished between 150 and 1000 C.E., known for its wealth and trade in gold.
It was a significant precursor to later West African empires.
Ghana
A prominent state within west African civilization established in 1235 C.E. and flourished for several centuries: monopolized the import of horses and metals as part of the trans-Saharan trade, large scale producer of gold, and its most famous ruler- Mansa Musa
Mali
fairly small-scale commerce in enslaved people that flourished especially from 1100 to 1400 exporting west African slaves across the Sahara for sale In Islamic North Africa
Trans-Saharan Slave trade
Major commercial city of west African civilization and a noted center of Islamic scholarship and education by the 16th century
Timbuktu
Academic center for research and translation of foreign texts that was established in Baghdad in
830 C.E. by the Abbasid caliph al- Mamum
House Of Wisdom
Network of trade that linked parts of the pre-columbian Americas, although less densely woven than the Afro-Eurasian trade networks, it provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas
American Web
