Islamic Golden Age
A period of time in a region that is defined as having economic, technological, and political success.
What is a Golden Age
This Chinese invention made it easier for people to pay for goods without carrying large quantities of metal coins.
What is paper money?
Main mode of transportation for the land trade routes. Also known as "the ships of the desert"
What are Camals?
Natural resource that made the empire rich.
What is Gold?
An invention developed by the Song Dynasty that made them a great military power.
What is Gunpowder?
This language was widely used by scholars and merchants across many Muslim societies.
What is Arabic?
This fast-maturing rice variety helped increase food production in Song China.
What is Champa rice?
Ocean Network connecting Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
What is the Indian Ocean Trading Network?
This mineral, essential for preserving food, was carried south across the Sahara to exchange for West African goods.
What is salt?
This helped navigation across Afro-Eurasia
What is the magnetic compass?
The Middle East created these to improve transactions in different regions.
What are banks?
This group ended Song rule in China and led to the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty.
Who are the Mongols?
These could be predicted and helped travelers along the Indian Ocean get from place to place.
What are Monsoon Winds?
This West African city became an important center of Islamic learning and trade.
What is Timbuktu?
This changed the way books were produced. It increased literacy rates due to higher access.
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What is Movable Type Print?
3 major areas of learning developed during this time.
What are mathematics, medicine, and astrology?
This helped determine who was the best to work in the government.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
These 2 trade routes were directly on land
What is the Silk Road and Trans-Saharan Trade Route?
This type of traveling merchant group used camels to carry goods across the Sahara.
What is a caravan?
Not only physical goods were traded on the trade routes but also...
Give an example
What is Islam, education (math, science, etc.), common language, etc.
This North African traveler wrote about his journeys across Africa and Asia in the fourteenth century.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This idea established strict gender roles, but also increased the importance of education.
What is Confucianism?
Name of the landmass that holds all three trade routes.
What is Afro-Eurasia?
Famously rich ruler of the Mali Empire
Who is Mansa Musa?
This explorer wrote about the Song Dynasties port cities and spread news to Europe regarding Chinese advancements
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Who is Marco Polo?