Maritime Empires
This empire controlled land in the Americas.
What is Spain?
This empire ruled much of the Middle East.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This trade route connected Asia and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This traveler wrote about China.
Who is Marco Polo?
This desert was crossed by traders.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This exchange moved crops, animals, and diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This empire ruled China during the 1600s.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This trade route used ships and monsoon winds.
What is Indian Ocean trade?
This traveler visited Africa and Asia.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This ocean connected Africa, Asia, and Europe.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This system forced Africans to work on plantations.
What is slavery?
This empire ruled India and built the Taj Mahal.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This trade route crossed the Sahara Desert.
What is Trans-Saharan trade?
This group ruled the Ottoman Empire.
Who are the Turks?
This city was the Ottoman capital.
What is Istanbul?
This crop was grown on Caribbean plantations.
What is sugar?
This country limited European trade to one port.
What is Japan?
This traveler wrote about his journeys.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This Mughal ruler supported religious tolerance.
Who is Akbar?
This region used plantation labor.
What is the Caribbean?
This empire used colonies to gain wealth from trade.
What is a maritime empire?
These empires used strong rulers to control land.
What are land-based empires?
This exchange linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This traveler helped spread knowledge of trade routes.
Who is Marco Polo?
This continent traded gold and salt.
What is Africa?