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