The Mongols passed power from...
WHAT IS FATHER TO SON?
This benefit of Mongol rule helped with the rise of cities in Eurasia.
WHAT IS SAFE LAND TRANSPORTATION?
This body of water was critical to trade Iin the Middle Ages.
WHAT IS THE INDIAN OCEAN?
This "kitchen pan" also describes the combining of many cultures.
WHAT IS A MELTING POT?
These "mobile" traders were part of the Silk Road network.
WHAT ARE NOMADIC?
WHAT IS THE MAGNETIC COMPASS?
The Mongols were organized into these...
WHAT ARE TRIBES AND CLANS?
This imperial capital was the eastern start of the Silk Roads.
WHAT IS CHANG'AN, CHINA?
This area of Africa required great care in travel.
WHAT IS THE SAHARA DESERT?
Over time, the Silk Road helped this process take place between groups.
WHAT IS CULTURAL EXCHANGE?
These beasts were the real heroes of Trans-Sahara Trade.
WHAT ARE CAMELS?
Yur not going to forget this housing innovation in Asia.
WHAT IS A YURT?
This group was sufficient in helping spread Islam in Southeast Asia.
WHO WERE THE SUFI MISSIONARIES?
The Mongol Empire's strength made this an easy decision for Korea and others.
WHAT IS SURRENDER?
The Swahili made this area home.
WHAT IS EAST AFRICA?
In this culture, Islam was widely and voluntarily adopted.
WHAT IS SWAHILI?
WHAT IS POLICE THE ROADS?
He is partly responsible for smelling good and "Italian" food.
WHO IS MARCO POLO?
These are settlements away from the homeland.
WHAT ARE DIASPORIC COMMUNITIES?
They "saved" The Silk Roads in the 9th Century.
WHAT IS THE ABBASID EMPIRE?
The plague in Eurasia caused this?
WHAT IS THE DECLINE OF CITIES?
These "thugs" actually practiced religious toleration.
WHO ARE THE MONGOLS?
WHAT ARE EAST ASIA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN?
This money was airborne in Asia.
WHAT WAS FLYING CASH?
They traded well beyond their borders. Gunpowder helped.
WHO ARE THE CHINESE?
These formed following the fall of the Mongol Empire.
WHAT ARE KHANATES?
Traders and merchants had to master these to travel safely.
WHAT ARE THE MONSOON WINDS?
This religion was particularly attractive to merchants.
WHAT IS BUDDHISM?
This was a safe place for land traders.
WHAT IS AN OASIS?
The Mongols assisted in doing this for Chinese inventions such as gunpowder?
WHAT IS DIFFUSING, OR SPREADING THEM AROUND?
The three ethnic/racial groups most responsible for Indian Ocean Trade.
WHAT ARE ASIAN, EAST AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN?
The Mongols could not tame this place. Blame the Navy.
WHAT IS JAPAN?
The Black Plague was not all bad for this European group.
WHO ARE THE SERFS OR PEASANTS?
This city was known for the architecture of their mosques.
WHAT IS TIMBUKTU?
These merchants created their own communities in Southeast Asia.
WHO ARE MUSLIMS?
Traded and also mentioned in the Bible.
WHAT ARE FRANKINCENSE OR MYRRH?
Ghana and Mali known for not having the same strict version of this system.
WHAT IS A GENDER HIERARCHY?
These two empires "tamed the desert" for trade.
WHAT ARE GHANA AND MALI?
Three diseases that were spread by the Silk Road.
WHAT ARE MEASLES, SMALLPOX AND THE PLAGUE?
He helped the world understand distant cultures through his words.
WHO IS IBN BATTUTA?
Sub-Saharan Africa often ________ _________ to Europe and The Middle East.
WHAT IS EXPORTED GOLD?
This type of transportation could improve trade, or get your kids to soccer games.
WAHT IS A CARAVAN?
This economic middle class existed between the poor such as serfs and the rich nobles and kings/queens.
WHAT ARE MERCHANTS?
This government was crucial to the expansion of the gold trade.
WHAT IS THE MALI EMPIRE?
This is the downfall of most empires.
WHAT IS TOO BIG TO MANAGE?
Which group was most responsible for the spread of Islam to West Africa?
WHO ARE TRANS-SAHARAN MERCHANTS?
This mostly closed down the Silk Roads.
WHAT IS THE AGE OF EXPLORATION?
The knowledge of this was spread among Indian, Arab and European societies by 1200 C.E., count on it.
WHAT IS NUMERALS AND THE DECIMAL SYSTEM?