Exam 15: Southern Empires, Southern Seas

Trace the rise of the Aztec Empire and the importance of their military strategy. What type of administrative landscape did the Aztec establish? How did the Aztec treat their subjugated peoples?

In lands they conquered, Muslim rulers seldom

Afghan and Turkish invaders were able to successfully invade India because of

What caused the collapse of the empire of Great Zimbabwe?

Outline the development of the Inka Empire. Describe the challenges they faced in the Andean region and how they overcame those challenges.

When the Delhi Sultanate began to lose control of its realm, new kingdoms emerged in India called Bahmani in the Deccan plateau and this kingdom in the southern states of the Indian subcontinent:

What was the primary form of administrative record-keeping in the Inka Empire?

What was unusual about the heir designated by Sultan Iltutmish?

Explain the importance of locality in maintaining a geopolitical entity by comparing the lives of "common people" in Mali and the Dehli Sultinate. How did the local economies provide the stability that allowed those empires to grow?

By the late fifteenth century, the major port of Kilwa annually exported a ton of

Which of the following is not true of pastoralists?

What was an important literary language written in Arabic characters that combined Persian and Hindi influences?

The spread of Islam through the Sahara was by conquest while the spread of Islam to lands south of the Sahara came about through

The empires of Mali in West Africa and of Delhi in South Asia both utilized

Why has Aden thrived commercially since ancient times?

The Indian Ocean trade was the world's richest maritime trading network. Why was it important, and how did it develop? What technologies made the trade network a success? Did Islam play a role? Why could it be described as "decentralized and cooperative"? Be sure to include the various goods, peoples, and lands involved.

As trade increased in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Strait of Malacca became the center of a political rivalry between

Who was Ibn Battuta? Where did he travel, and what did he learn about the Islamic world?

"Swahili" comes from an Arabic word meaning

What was unique about Gujarat trade compared to African and Arabic?