The Empires Strike Back
Their control of the Silk Road protected merchants from bandit attacks.
Who are the Mongols?
One of two variations on Mahayana Buddhism in China and Japan.
What is Chan or Zen Buddhism?
The trade of these two items were characteristic of the trade between the Berbers and Mali.
What are gold and salt?
The continent through which merchants conducted the Trans-Saharan trade.
What is Africa?
What is China?
Mansa Musa was king of this African empire.
What is Mali?
What is Islam?
China was famous for these two luxury items.
What are silk and porcelain?
This series of man-made waterways in China greatly increased its internal trade. Foreign merchants could be seen there, too.
What is the Grand Canal?
This boat feature allowed Chinese ships to be steered more accurately.
What is the stern rudder?
This place exerted a powerful influence over Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
What is China?
This Chinese philosophy stresses the virtues and duties of family members was a major influence on the cultures of Japan and Korea.
What is Confucianism?
This came from African rhino horns and became a luxury trade item in the Indian Ocean.
What is ivory?
The Incas for this, which traversed their empire through the Andes Mountains.
What is a roadway system?
What is woodblock printing/printing press?
They were famous for the construction of an empire in the Andes Mountains as well as for all their gold.
Who were the Incas?
This is the place in Baghdad which transferred ancient Greek into Arabic, helping them to write new medical books and build upon ancient medical knowledge.
What is the House of Wisdom?
China received and started to grow this food after receiving it as tribute from Vietnam.
What is Champa rice?
China's Grand Fleet made seven voyages throughout this ocean to engage in its lively trade among its various port cities.
What is the Indian Ocean?
A special version of this item was invented by semi-nomadic Somalis to be placed on their camels.
What are saddles?
This was the empire that took over the gold-salt trade after Mali.
What is the Songhai Empire?
On the island of Java, stupas were made reflecting this religion, which originated in India and follows the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
Interregional commerce led to the growth of these places in Asian, along the Indian Ocean coasts, and in the Mediterranean Basin.
What are cities?
Caravanserai, or inns for caravans and their animals, began to pop up along this overland trade route through Eurasia.
What is the Silk Road?
The three-field system was applied on this continent as a way of producing crops throughout the year while not over-farming the land because one part would lie fallow.
What is Europe?