Unit 1-2 Vocabulary

This political entity is typical for people from the Eurasian Steppe and it can be equivalent to tribal chiefdom, principality, kingdom or empire.

• Khanates

• Caliph

• Bushido

• Sultanate

Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic.

• Qu'ran

• Holy Bible

• Confucianism

• Goryeo

A Korean dynasty established in 918 by King Taejo. This kingdom later gave name to the modern exonym for Korea.

• Goryeo

• Shogunate

• Sufism

• Pax Mongolica

Describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Mongol Empire

• Pax Mongolica

• Golden Age of Mongol Empire

• Khanates

• Sultanate

The inward dimension of Islam or the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam.

• Sufism

• Shinto

• Shia

• Sunni

a Japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power ( kami ) in both animate and inanimate things.

• Shinto

• Islam

• Christianity

• Shogunate

Requires travel across the Sahara to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant.

• Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

• Indian Ocean Trade Routes

• Silk Road Trade Routes

• Eurasian Trade Routes

A roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey.

• Caravanserai

• Bantu Migrations

• Sundiata

• Sultanate

Founder of the Mali Empire.

• Sundiata

• Mohammad

• Genghis Khan

• Mansa Musa

Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries.

• Swahili

• Arabic

• Bushido

• Caliphate