Pax Mongolica
He was the founder of the Mongol Empire.
Who was Temujin / Genghis Khan?
The spread of this religion helped ease trade relations throughout the Indian Ocean
How did Islam impact trade in the Maritime Silk Road?
Improvements in this key technology was vital to making Trans-Saharan trade economically viable.
Why were improved camel saddles important?
These were inns located along the Silk Road were camels and riders could rest, find food, water and other supplies.
What were the Caravanserai?
The introduction of this foodstuff led to a major population explosion in China.
Why was Champa rice important to China?
This was the name of the Mongol Dynasty in China.
What was the Yuan Dynasty?
These were contributions from the Spice Islands to the Indian Ocean trade network (name two)
Why were bananas, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom important for the Spice Islands during the 1250 to 1450 time period?
This was a major empire in the Southern half of Africa that funneled gold, leather, and other goods into the Maritime Silk Road via the Swahili States.
What was Great Zimbabwe?
These were two major central Asian hubs of the Silk Road.
What did Samarkand, Bukhara, Kashgar, Merv, and khotan share in common?
The introduction of this foodstuff led to a minor population explosion in Africa.
Why were bananas important to Africa?
These were famous mounted Mongol archer units which would feign an attack and then retreat to bait enemies to follow them and then decimate them with arrows while still riding away.
What were the Mangudai archers?
These products were some of India's major contributions to the Indian ocean trade network (name two)
Why were cotton, gem jewelry, tanned leathers, steel, paprika, and pepper important during the 1250 to 1450 period in India?
These were the three major Subsaharan States that served as Nodes connecting Africa to the Old World Trade Network.
What did the Ghana-Mali Empires, the Hausa city-states, and the Aksum Kingdom share in common?
These were some of China's contributions to the Silk Road trade?
Why were silk, porcelain, tea, and jade and bronze goods important to China
European obsession with this good which they originally received via the Silk Road eventually led to a major expansion of slavery around the world.
What was a negative effect of the popularization of sugar as a food condiment?
The Mongols would often throw dead bodies infected with this disease using catapults into besieged cities as a means of biowarfare, and thus they helped spread a hemispheric pandemic of this maladie.
What was the Black Death (or Bubonic Plague)?
These were all important ports in the Maritime Silk Road (name three).
What did Malacca, Calicut, Quangzhoe, Aden, Hormuz, Kilwa Kisiwani, Samudera, and Mogadishu have in common?
These were three of the major contributions by Africa to the larger old World Trade Network.
Why were gold, ivory, and slaves important to Africa?
These were some of the key technologies originated in China that were spread over the Old World through the Silk Road. (name three)
What do paper-making, gunpowder, the magnetic compass, and paper money have in common?
These were two major civilizations that collapsed as a result of overfarming / overgrazing of their environment to sustain their ever growing populations.
What did the Maya Civilization and the Great Zimbabwe state share in common?
These were states that managed to resist and avoid invasion and conquest by the Mongols during their first wave of expansion (name at least two).
What do the Mamluk Sultanate, the Delhi Sultanate, the Japanese Empire, the Champa Kingdom in Vietnam, and the Majapahit Empire in java have in common?
Knowledge of this winds and their seasonal changes was key to trade in the Indian Ocean
Why were the Monsoon Winds important in the Maritime Silk Road
Why did no other major West African empire appear to replace Songhai as the gatekeeper of West African gold after this kingdom fell to Morocco?
The Trans-Saharan trade road lost importance due to the Portuguese opening a bigger maritime trade route around the African coastline.
These were two major Chinese nodes connecting the country to the Silk Road.
What did Guangzhou, Kashgar, Dunhuang, Khanbalik (Beijing) have in common?
These were other major diseases aside from the Black Death that were made worse by the existence of the Old World Trade Network. (name two)
What do smallpox, measles, malaria, and intestinal parasites have in common.