Mongol Mania
Who is Chinggis Khan (Ghengis Khan)?
What is the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
This animal was essential to trade on the Trans-Saharan due to its ability to conserve water, eat cactus, and carry heavy loads...
What is a camel?
THIS HINDU STATE benefitted greatly from its connection with the Indian Ocean Trade Network...
What is the Vijaynagara Empire?
Developed on the Indian Ocean Trade Network, this triangular sail allows a vessel to harness the wind from any direction...
What is a lateen sail?
THESE are two major states conquered by the Mongols...
What are the Abbasid Caliphate and Song Dynasty of China?
Other answers may be acceptable...
What are luxury goods?
The capital of the Mali Empire, this West African city was a center of Islamic learning due to a number of mosques and madrassas established by leaders like Mansa Musa...
What is Timbuktu?
This Southeast Asian city-state was strategically located on a crucial strait (waterway), was a major trading port, and had a government focused on facilitating foreign trade...
What is Malakka?
Developed and improved upon on the Trans-Saharan Trade Network, these harnesses allowed for pack animals to be loaded with large amounts of cargo, such as gold, ivory, or salt...
What are camel saddles?
Although the Mongols are known for the brutal conquest of empires and other states to create the largest, contiguous land empire in history, possibly the most lasting legacy of the Mongols was THIS PERIOD of peace and stability along the majority of the Silk Road...
What is Pax Mongolica?
Luxury goods, such as silk and porcelain, were famously traded on the Silk Road. Additionally, culture such as Buddhism and diseases like the Black Death traveled on the silk road, along with THIS MILITARY INNOVATION...
What is gunpowder?
These items were famously traded on the Trans-Saharan Trade Network...
What are gold, ivory, slaves, and salt?
In addition to the spice trade that made the city-state of Malacca so wealthy, THESE THREE ITEMS also were traded along the Indian Ocean Trade Network...
What are cotton, carpets, pepper, and steel?
First used by the Song Dynasty and later by the Mongols, THIS ECONOMIC INNOVATION increased trade along the Silk Road by eliminating the need to pay and be paid in heavy gold or silver coins...
What is paper money?
THESE are two major states that defeated the Mongols in battle during the time period c. 1200 - c. 1450 CE...
Who are the Mamaluk Sultanate, Delhi Sultanate, Vietnam, and Japan?
THESE ROADSIDE INNS were important rest stops and centers for cultural exchange on the Silk Road...
What are Caravanserai?
Comparable to caravanserai on the Silk Road, these watering holes were scarce on the Trans-Saharan, but could be thriving centers for trade and cultural exchange...
What are Oases? What is an Oasis?
The Muslim diaspora, a voluntary settlement of merchants throughout the Indian Ocean Trade Network and beyond, was caused in part by THESE SEASONAL WINDS...
What are Monsoon winds?
THESE are three innovations from China and/or the Indian Ocean Trade Network that helped facilitate the navigation of the greatest navy of the world c. 1433 under Admiral Zhang He. Many of THESE INNOVATIONS were later adopted by Western Europeans as they sailed all over the world in subsequent centuries...
What are: Stern Rudder, Lateen Sails, Magnetic Compass, Astrolabe, and Chinese Junks?
Kublai Khan founded THIS SHORT-LIVED, MONGOL DYNASTY, which disregarded the neo-Confucianism of the defeated Song Dynasty and was later replaced by the Ming Dynasty
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
After traveling the length of the Silk Road, Marco Polo returned to THIS ITALIAN CITY STATE and wrote about his journey from the Point of View of a merchant...
What is Venice?
As shown by Mansa Musa's famous hajj in 1324, this religion had become prominent among the ruling class of West Africa by the time period c. 1200-1450 CE...
What is Islam?
THESE SLAVES were captured in Africa and taken to South Asia and the Middle East as work mainly as household and city laborers...
THIS ECONOMIC INNOVATION was an early form of credit/banking that increased trade on the Silk Road...
What is flying cash?