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history: ch 12 & 13

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commodity
valuable products
nuclear family
parents and children who live and work together
Khoisan
people who adapted to harsh conditions on Kalahari desert by gather roots and herbs and hunting small game
slash and burn agriculture
burn down forest and use the ash for fertilizer
Du Fu
poet who described the horrors of war
Li Shimin
song of Li Yuan and established the Tang Dynasty
Great Rift Valley
interior corridor with linked water bodies
Zhu Yuanzhang
peasant leader who founded the Ming Dynasty
tributary states
independent state that must acknowledge its leader and pay tax to him
Timbuktu
great Mali town where caravan routes crossed
grand canal
encouraged national trade between Huang He and Yangtze River
mansas
Mali kings
Li Qingzhao
poet who described the tragedy of leaving family to war
usurped
illegally taken over
matrilineal
where important kinship ties and inheritance were passed though mother's side
oba
king
King Ezena
Axum king who converted to Christianity
Almoravids
pious Muslims of North Africa
Li Yuan
first Tang Emperor under the Sui Dynasty
pagoda
multi-storied temple with eaves that curve at the corners
lineage
group of households with common ancestors
gentry
wealthy landowning class
Marco Polo
took teachings from China back to Italy
Pax Mongolica
Mongolian peace
Kublai Khan
song of Genghis Khan and ruled all of China, Korea, Vietname and Tibet
griots
professional poets
Falasha
European Jews
Zheng He
completed overseas voyages
savanna
grassy plain
Empress Wu
claimed to be "son of heaven" after her husband died and was hated because of it
patrilineal
where important kinship ties and inheritance were passed through father's side
Li Bo
Tang poet who wrote about harmony with nature
Coptic Church
gave unique sense of identity and helped establish culture distinct from neighboring people
desertification
process when fertile/semi-desert land becomes desert land

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