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diffusion ✔✔Is the spreading of other peoples ideas to different parts of the world.
conduit ✔✔a means by which something is transmitted (ex: religion, disease,
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AP World History Exam Review (Unit 3 &
4) Already Passed
diffusion ✔✔Is the spreading of other peoples ideas to different parts of the world.
conduit ✔✔a means by which something is transmitted (ex: religion, disease, technology via trade
routes)
Swahili city-states ✔✔A number of commercial polities established mostly by Indian Ocean trade
by Bantu descendants the Swahili, they rose to significant economic and political sapience between
700 and 1100 CE forming large trade ports with coral brick houses and a wealthy merchant and
artisan class. Primarily traded gold and ivory but knowledge also traveled along these routes
Timbuktu ✔✔Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning; Muslim
Venice ✔✔An Italian town along with Pisa and Genoa that controlled the Mediterranean trade
after 1200 CE bringing silks and spices from Asia to Europe.
luxury goods ✔✔Goods that have special qualities that make them more expensive than alternative
goods (ex: silk, cotton textiles, porcelain, spices, precious gems/metals)
porcelain ✔✔a thin, beautiful pottery invented in China; China had a monopoly on porcelain for
a long time, luxury good
astrolabe ✔✔An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position
of the stars and planets; encouraged the growth of trade and exploration; invented by the Greek
220 BCE
paper money ✔✔legal currency issued on paper; it developed in China as a convenient alternative
to metal coins
Hanseatic League ✔✔an organization of north German and Scandinavian cities for the purpose of
establishing a commercial alliance.
Byzantine Empire ✔✔(330 CE-1453 CE) The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived
after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was
Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine. Christian, centralized, Hagia Sophia,
ceasorpapism
caesaropapism ✔✔A political- religious s
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