Silk Roads
Indian Ocean Trade
Trade Innovations
Mongol
Trans-Saharan Trade
100

Outposts located about every 100 miles on the Silk Roads.

What are Caravanserai?

100

These common items were traded over the Indian Ocean.

What are spices and textiles?

100
An invention that allowed a sailor to orient themselves.
What is a compass?
100

The first Khan of the Mongols.

Who is Genghis Khan?

100

People in the Trans-Saharan trade network used these animals for trade.

What is a camel?

200

The country that aided in the protection of the Silk Roads.

What is the Mongol Empire?

200

A ship invented by the Chinese to allow for better trade.

What is the Chinese Junk ship?

200

The over-land innovation that aided travelers based on their needs.

What are camel saddles?
200

A period of peace under the Mongols.

What is the Pax Mongolica?

200

These countries took up the coast of East Africa.

What were the coast cities?

300

The cause of death for a large population of Europe and Asia spread over the Silk Road.

What is the Bubonic Plague?
300

The knowledge of which caused an increase in trade.

What are monsoon winds?
300

An invention that allowed sailors to see their latitude.

What is an astrolabe?

300

The origin of the Mongols.

What is the Eastern Steppes?

300

Commonly traded items (2) on the Trans-Saharan trade network.

What is Gold and Ivory? (or Slaves and Salt)

400

The Chinese credit system widely adopted by the wider Silk Roads.

What is flying money?

400

The Chinese invention that allowed for better stability.

What is a Stern Rudder?
400

Places allowing credit to be extracted from bills of exchange.

What are banking houses?

400

The closer translation of the first Khan's name.

What is Chinggis Khan?

400

The largest trade empire in Sub-Saharan Africa.

What is Mali?
500

The most notable cities along the Silk Road.

What are the cities of Samarkand and Kashgar?

500

The Arab innovation that caught the wind better.

What are lateen sails?

500

A pidgin language created between the Islamic and the Bantu speaking people.

What is the Swahili language.
500

The European practice ended by the fighting style of the Mongols.

What is knights wearing armor?
500

The religion that was spread over the Trans-Saharan trade network.

What is Islam?

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