Post Classical – 1200-1450

Event Definition/Description Defining Characteristics Identify These People: Identify These Terms:
(BULLET STATEMENTS)
State Building & Diffusion Song Dynasty - China What technology and ideas
Government – how did diffused from Song China? *Bureaucracy of Merit:
they use Confucianism? Where?

*Mansa Musa & kingdom

of Mali

What technology and ideas *House of Wisdom

Islamic Empire: diffused from the Islamic
What were the different Empire? Where?
Caliphates?

*Sufis
*Ibn Battuta

What impact did

Hinduism, Islam, and
Buddhism have in SE Asia?
Nature of government: *Khmer Empire
Maya

Aztec
*Chinampas
Mongols (4 regions) – *Genghis Khan
similar and different

Inca
*Mita
 Nature of European Western Europe:
government & society: Social *Feudalism

Byzantine Empire and

Russia (East)
Political *Manor/Manorial System

Culture *Serfdom

Cordoba Spain

*Black Plague
Economic

1) regions, 2) goods
traded, 3) ideas/tech Identify and explain
that diffused The Silk Roads Indian Ocean Trade Trans-Saharan Route these regional routes

Define: *Turquoise Road:

*astrolabe & compass

*Gold/Salt Trade Route:

*caravanserai

*diasporic community –
example? *Mediterranean Sea Lanes:

*Samarkand *Swahili Coast

*monsoon