The Silk Road
this is the number of miles that separated caravanserai along the Silk Roads, since it was the distance a camel could travel without water.
What is 100 (miles)?
This coastal African region's city-states, whose name means "people of the coast," prospered from trade in the 12th–15th centuries.
What are the Swahili City-States?
This desert, the largest aside from the Antarctic and Arctic deserts, separated North Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This pre-historic, globally-seen belief system holds that physical objects are inhabited by spirits and that shamans can communicate with the spiritual world.
What is Animism?
This term describes a first-hand account of a time period or event.
What is a primary source?
This Chinese dynasty developed the first caravan paths across Central Asia around 200 BCE to collect tribute and improve trade.
What is the Han Dynasty?
ailors relied on these predictable seasonal winds to time their voyages across the Indian Ocean.
What are monsoon winds?
Camels were ideal Saharan pack animals because they could carry 300 pounds and travel this many days without water.
What is 10 (days)?
This religion's Four Noble Truths include Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, and Magga.
What is Buddhism?
This term refers to the factors — including bias, background, and purpose — that determine whether a source can be trusted.
What is reliability?
This nomadic empire caused the Silk Roads to peak in the 1200s–1300s by making the roads safer and punishing bandits.
What is the mongol empire?
This Ming Dynasty admiral led seven major voyages spanning Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa to extend China's tributary system.
Who is Zheng He?
This West African empire, founded by Sundiata Keita, was the largest in West Africa at its peak and controlled many Trans-Saharan trade routes.
What is the Mali Empire?
This monotheistic religion, tracing back to Abraham around 2000 BCE, considers the Torah its sacred text.
What is Judaism?
This term describes supporting an argument with evidence from a rich variety of historical documents presenting different perspectives.
What is corroboration?
This system of credit, developed in China, allowed merchants to deposit paper money in one location and withdraw it somewhere else.
What is "flying cash"?
This narrow, strategic waterway was a chokepoint between East Asia and the rest of Indian Ocean trade, controlled by the Sultanate of Malacca.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
This wealthy Mali ruler took power in 1312 and famously brought 60,000 people and thousands of pounds of gold on his hajj to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This religion, founded by Confucius and Laozi in China, includes two schools of thought emphasizing social harmony/filial piety and living in harmony with nature, respectively.
What are Confucianism and Daoism?
Historians distinguish between what is different over time (this term) and what stays the same over time (continuity).
What is change?
This German historian coined the term "Seidenstrassen" (Silk Roads) in the late 19th century, and happened to be the uncle of WWI flying ace the "Red Baron."
Who is Ferdinand von Richthofen?
Unlike Silk Road camels, Indian Ocean trade relied on these large vessels with huge storage capacity in their hulls.
What are (treasure/junk) ships?
These three goods were the primary commodities carried by West African trade caravans.
What are gold, salt, and slaves?
This religion's Five Pillars include faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage, and considers Muhammad the final prophet in the Abrahamic line.
What is Islam?
This term describes evaluating whether past actions were morally right or wrong based on the values and principles of that time period.
What is an ethical issue?