Outposts located about every 100 miles on the Silk Roads.
What are Caravanserai?
These common items were traded over the Indian Ocean.
What are spices and textiles?
The first Khan of the Mongols.
Who is Genghis Khan?
People in the Trans-Saharan trade network used these animals for trade.
What is a camel?
The country that aided in the protection of the Silk Roads.
What is the Mongol Empire?
A ship invented by the Chinese to allow for better trade.
What is the Chinese Junk ship?
The over-land innovation that aided travelers based on their needs.
A period of peace under the Mongols.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
These countries took up the coast of East Africa.
What were the coast cities?
The cause of death for a large population of Europe and Asia spread over the Silk Road.
The knowledge of which caused an increase in trade.
An invention that allowed sailors to see their latitude.
What is an astrolabe?
The origin of the Mongols.
What is the Eastern Steppes?
Commonly traded items (2) on the Trans-Saharan trade network.
What is Gold and Ivory? (or Slaves and Salt)
The Chinese credit system widely adopted by the wider Silk Roads.
What is flying money?
The Chinese invention that allowed for better stability.
Places allowing credit to be extracted from bills of exchange.
What are banking houses?
The closer translation of the first Khan's name.
What is Chinggis Khan?
The largest trade empire in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The most notable cities along the Silk Road.
What are the cities of Samarkand and Kashgar?
The Arab innovation that caught the wind better.
What are lateen sails?
A pidgin language created between the Islamic and the Bantu speaking people.
The European practice ended by the fighting style of the Mongols.
The religion that was spread over the Trans-Saharan trade network.
What is Islam?