Unit 1 and 2 Review

What do the three have in common?

Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo

• All travelers– Zhen He and the treasure fleets– Ibn Battuta followed the commerce routes– Marco Polo made his way from Europe to the

court of Kublai Khan

Confucianism, Hinduism, European feudalism

• All contributed to the development of strict social classes– Confucianism: harmony with society– Hinduism and the caste system of India– the feudal pyramid

Great Zimbabwe, Mali, and Venice

• All relied on regional and far flung networks of trade – Mali: trans-saharan and Indian Ocean– Great Zimbabwe: Indian Ocean– Venice: Mediterranean

Yersina Pestis, Silk, Marco Polo

• All traveled along the silk routes opened up by the Mongols

Bodhisattva, Female, Emperor during the Tang Dynasty

• Wu Zhao

Genghis Khan, Seljuk Turks, Xiongnu

• Pastoralists– Horse cultures from Central Asia

Gupta, Han, Rome

• Classical Age Civilizations

Mamluks, Japan, Ming

• All defeated the Mongols– Mamluks defeated the Mongols in Palestine at

the battle of Ain Julat– Japan withstood the Mongol amphibious

assault with the aid of the kamikaze (“divine wind”)

– Ming defeated the Mongol Yuan dynasty

Mesopotamia, sedentary life, domestication of plants and

animals• Agricultural or Neolithic Revolution

Alphabet, Carthage, Sea People

• Phoenician

Sassanians, Alexander the Great, Cyrus the Great

• All conquered Persia

Assembly lines, foot binding, East Asia

• Southern Song

Shi Huangdi, Augustus, Charlemagne

• All “first” emperors– Shi Huangdi: First emperor of China– Augustus: First emperor of Rome– Charlemagne: crowned emperor of Holy

Roman Empire (though many historians argue that the first emperor of the German principalities and kingdoms, which is later termed the Holy Roman Empire, was Otto I)

Code of Hammurabi, Sharia, Twelve Tables

• Legal codes– Hammurabi of ancient Babylon– Sharia law of Islam– Twelve Tables of Rome

Brahmin under the Gupta, Bureaucrats under the Han,

Patricians in Rome

• Upper classes

Hieroglyph, Sanskrit, Uighur

• Writings– Hieroglyphs of the Egyptians– Sanskrit of the Aryan-Dravidians of India– Uighur (also a Turkic people) of the Mongols

Granada 8th C.Baghdad 12th C.Nicaea 11th C.

• All part of Dar al Islam– Granada, Spain– Baghdad…– Nicaea in Anatolia

Hyksos, Nubians, Assyrians

• All conquered Egypt

Mycaneans, Hittites, Egyptians

• All attacked by the Sea People