AP World 1.3 South & Southeast Asia

Majapahit Empire

• 1229-1358, empire in southeast Asia based on island of Java

• Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward, the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies.

• philosophy of Laozi that revolves around a search for knowledge and an understanding of nature

• A Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa

Bhakti Movement

• The first Kingdom established

• Muslim philosopher who blended Aristotle and Plato's views with Islam

• City, now in ruins, whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 - 1450, trading center and the capital of a large state

• An immensely popular development in Hinduism, advocating intense devotion toward a particular diety

Khmer Empire

• Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.

• Empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia

• Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.

• A group of devotional movements in Islam

Srivijaya Empire

• philosophy of Laozi that revolves around a search for knowledge and an understanding of nature

• Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within a Muslim empire

• Triangular sail that made it possible to sail against the wind; used in Indian Ocean trade

• Flourished from the 600s to 1200s; controlled the Strait of Malacca

Rajput Kingdoms

• Set of kingdoms in India that arose after the fall of the Gupta dynasty

• The second most holiest city in Islam. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.

• 1293-1358, empire in southeast Asia based on island of Java

• Islamic empire ruled by descendants of the prophet Muhammad

Delhi Sultanates

• (1206-1526 CE) The successors of Mahmud of Ghazni mounted more campaigns, but directed their goals to creating this empire

• Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism, a tradition of Buddhism that teaches that people can use special techniques to harness spiritual energy and can achieve nirvana in a single lifetime

• A high area of land at the center of the Indian subcontinent

• Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within a Muslim empire

Sukhothai Kingdom

• An urban center established by Anasazi located in southern New Mexico. There, they built a walled city with dozens of three-story adobe houses with timbered roofs. Community religious functions were carried out in two large circular chambers called kivas

• Clans in Aztec society, later expanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors

• The very first kingdom of Thailand that existed within the 1200s

• A maritime kingdom based in India

Angor Wat

• Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco

• A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad

• City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state

• A temple complex built in the Khmer Empire and dedicated to the Hindu God, Vishnu

Monsoon/Rohini

• A hurricane

• A seasonal wind

• An earhtquake

• a tornado

Qutub Minar

• Structure in India built during the Delhi Sultanate that blends Hindu and Islamic art & architechture

• Temple in Thailand

• famous Hindu temple that was then transitioned to a Buddhist temple

• tax people paid as tribute