Chinese Dynasties
The Chinese were the only people that knew how to make this, making it a high value trade item
This is what the Ottomans renamed Constantinople.
What is Istanbul?
This was the name of the African Kingdom that primarily traded in salt and gold.
What is Mali?
This waterway brought a lot of money to the Byzantines, through taxing trade.
What is the Bosporus Strait?
These people were on the bottom of the feudal pyramid
Who are serfs?
This crop helped Chinese farmers have a surplus of food and pursue art.
What is fast growing rice?
This was the religion of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Sunni Islam?
This was the richest man of all time, a leader of Mali
Who is Mansa Musa?
This was the art style the Byzantines were known for.
What are mosaics?
This document stated that even kings have to follow the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This class of people had to pass a test to work in the government.
Who are the scholar officials?
This pillar of Islam involved traveling to Mecca.
What is hajj or pilgrimage?
This was the trade route in Northern Africa
What is the Trans-Saharan trade route?
This was the religion of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Orthodox Christianity?
This animal helped spread the plague around Europe.
What are rats?
This was the first ruler of the Yuan Dynasty in China
Who is Kublai Khan?
This was the religion of the Safavid Empire.
What is Shia Islam?
These were the two most important resources traded along the Trans-Saharan trade route.
What are salt and gold?
This Byzantine ruler reformed the legal code.
Who is Justinian?
This medical practice involved drilling skulls into people's heads.
What is trepanning?
This waterway helped pass goods between two rivers in China.
What is the Grand Canal?
This person got his name from conquering the city of Constantinople.
Who is Mehmed the Conquerer?
This Swahili city state was a center of trade.
Where are Kilwa or Mombasa?
This wife of Justinian helped to reform divorce law in the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Theodora?
This term referred to the religious order that was not bound to a monastery, they walked around to educate people about their religion.
Who were friars?