Unit 1 + 2 WHAP

The slow spread of people south of the equator to Africa since 3000 BCE, collection of 400 distinct cultures.

618-907, dynasty that followed the Sui, known as "the best ordered state in the world" and more scholastic than the Sui

5 requirements for believrs of Islam that represented the main values and message of the Quran

200 BCE-200 CE, a set of practices that required non-Chinese authorites to acknowledge Chinese superiority

589-618, a dynasty established after the collapse of the Han, was known as the golden age of arts and literature

300-400 CE, the trek across the Sahara, from sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa, to transport slaves to sell

The largest sea-based system of communication and exchange stretching from southern China to eastern Africa

People depending on herding of demesticated animals for their food

Authorized invasions led by the Pope, justified by God, spread Christianity further West and weakened some civilizations

The mystical system of the Sufis in Islam

Early form of Buddhism, in which the Buddha was a wise teacher and not divine and which emphasize practices over beliefs

14th century, traveler who wrote exclusively about his journeys throughout the Islamic world

A body of thoughts created by scholars, about Confucius' teachings, elaborated after his death.

The Indian Prince who founded Buddhism (566-486 B.C.E)

A branch in the Christian faith centralized in the Byzantine

The middle stretches of the Niger River in West Africa, the people created a distinctive city-based civilization

200 BCE-200 CE, Central Asia and Arabia, netowork of land-based trade routes that linked civilizations together

Ceremonial centers , in present day Guatemala and Yucatán region of Mexico, constructed by the Mayan people

Significant syncretic religion evolved in India after Islamic conquest, blended elements of Islam and Hinduism

A ceremonial center, around 900 BCE, located in the Andean highlands in a village called Chavín de Huántar

Germanic kingdom led by Otto I of Saxony following Charlemagne, tried to continue the Roman empires reputation

960-1279, Chinese dynasty that followed the Tang "By far the richest, most skilled, and most populous country on earth"

Eastern Orthodox that built off of fallen Roman Empire, an Orthodox society was main divide between the Eastern Orthodox

14th century, disease that wiped out half of European civilization, similar death toll in China + parts of Islamic world

A Chinese philosophy that advocates simplicity and understanding of the world of nature