Trade Routes
African Kingdoms
Americas
Islamic Civilization
Indian Empires
100
Silk Road
What route goes across Asia and the Mediterranean Basin?
100
Animism
What is the belief where all natural objects in the universe have a soul?
100
Mayans
What ancient civilization in the Americas was ruled by Kings?
100
Umayyad Caliphate
What family came to power after Muhammed?
100
Pass between the Hindu Kush mountains
What is the Khyber pass?
200
Maritime route
What route goes across Indian ocean?
200
Mansa Musa
Who was the richest man alive?
200
Aztecs
What ancient civilization was located in Arid valley in central Mexico?
200
Damascus
Where was the capital moved to from Mecca?
200
Indus + Ganges
What rivers provided water and fertile soil?
300
Gold and Salt
What goods are from West Africa?
300
Timbuktu
What was the center of trade and learning?
300
Incans
What ancient civilization had Machu Picchu as a sacred site?
300
Baghdad
Where did the Abbasids move the capital too?
300
Conqueror turned Buddhist who created peace and prosperity in India
Who was Asoka?
400
Paper
What technology went from China through muslim world to Byzantium & western Europe?
400
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
What were the empires in west Africa?
400
Hieroglyphs
What is the Mayan writing system?
400
Center of trade routes
What was Baghdad?
400
Gupta Dynasty
Who wanted a golden age, had advanced astronomy, and created the concept of Zero/decimal system?
500
Buddhism
What religion came from Korea and Japan?
500
Axum
What empire was in East Africa?
500
Incans
What ancient civilization left babies on the Andes Mountains to be struck by lightning?
500
Mongols
Who conquered Baghdad?
500
Poet and playwright
Kalidasa