Silk Road(s) 1200-1450
This improved the efficiency and safety of overland trade routes.
What is a caravan?
The environmental knowledge merchants needed navigate the Indian Ocean.
What is monsoon wind knowledge?
The trade network that the Mongols innovated and protected.
What is the Silk Road?
Genghis Khan's grandson.
Who is Kublai Khan?
2 luxurious items that can be found on the Silk Road.
Silk textiles and porcelains
A rest stop where merchants could exchange good, supplies, and information.
What is a caravanserai?
The Indian Ocean connected these 3 regions.
What are the East Coast of Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. (Africa, Middle East India, and China also acceptable).
Conquered every Mongol khan, unifying all of Mongolia.
Who is Genghis Khan?
The Mongols helped facilitate trade, which transferred these 3 technologies from Asia to other regions.
Papermaking, gunpowder, and printing
Spread along the Silk Road before reaching and infecting Europe.
What is the Bubonic Plague / Black Death?
The two most influential innovations to come from China along the Silk Road.
The name of a community that introduces their culture to a new region, creating a unique blend of cultures.
What is a diasporic community?
The Golden Horde and Yuan Dynasty.
What are khanates?
The Illkhanate and Chagatai.
What are khanates?
The 2 innovations in ships.
What are the dhow and junk?
These urban centers rose due to the successful trade of the Silk Road.
What are Baghdad, Constantinople, and Hangzhou?
His voyages facilitated the transfer of Chinese goods, technologies, and cultural practices to other regions.
Who is Zheng He?
The European explorer who lived with and documented that Mongols (specifically the Yuan Dynasty)
Who is Marco Polo?
A network of relay stations in the Mongol Empire. It was the blueprint for the first post office.
This Chinese dynasty defeated the Mongols.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
The world's leading manufacturer of iron and steel can be found in this country along the Silk Road.
Zheng He sailed for what dynasty?
What is the Ming Dynasty?
The Mongols were know for this policy, it encouraged exchanges of ideas between scholars, merchants, and travelers.
What is religious tolerance?
This European country formed because of the collapse of the Mongols.
What is Russia?
Two major port cities of the Indian Ocean.