Religion
This religion was founded by a prince as he was searching for the meaning of life.
This is a term that describes the many connections between trading locations.
What are networks?
This desert is the one that is in North Africa and part of the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This is a term used to describe someone who buys and sells things along a trade route.
What is a merchant or trader?
This is what sailors could find with the astrolabe.
What are heavenly bodies and (or) their latitude?
What is one of the key beliefs of Buddhists?
What is the Middle Way, The Eightfold Path, or the Four Noble Truths? Or moderation in general
This term describes a connection to oceans or seas.
What is maritime?
This is the desert where Muhammad's religion was created.
Traveled from Mali with huge amounts of gold on his way to Hajj in Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This allowed merchants to travel more lightly and more safely instead of traveling with metals.
What are paper money, bills of exchange, or banking houses?
This religion was started in Arabia in the 7th Century CE.
Along with goods these also traveled along trade routes.
What are cultural ideas, technology, beliefs? (cultural diffusion)
These provided a predictable and reliable wind pattern for sailors in the Indian Ocean.
What are monsoons or monsoon winds?
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This is one of the goods that traveled FROM China to Arabia, Europe and Africa
What is gunpowder, compass, paper money, silk?
What is syncretism?
These allowed people to sail into the wind.
This city in North Africa had paper, cotton, and other goods to trade. It is near the Red Sea.
This empire stretched across Asia and to Europe and helped keep the Silk Routes safe for merchants.
What is wool?
What are Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma?
What are caravanserai?
This is the city in Southeast Asia where many of the traders traveled to and from. It is where modern day Malaysia is today.
What was the name of the bacteria that caused the Black Plague?
What is Yersinia Pestis?
This is what Cairo, Egypt experienced because of the amount of gold brought their on a ruler's Hajj expedition.
What is inflation?