Vocab
Disease spread through trade routes that killed 1/3 of Europe's population
What is Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
Innovation involving camels that impacted trade
Place where sea trade took place in South Africa
What is the Indian Ocean Basin?
Empire that made the Silk Roads safer
What is the Mongol Empire?
Winds in the Indian Ocean that merchants used to plan their voyages
What is Monsoon Winds?
Boat with multiple sails, as long as 400ft, and with multiple compartments
What is Junk?
Crop offered to the Chinese via tribute by Vietnam
What is Champa rice?
Communities merchants formed by settling in cities while waiting for favorable winds for sea travel
What is Diasporic Communities?
Three main forms of travel on the Silk Roads and Trans-Sahran trade routes
What is camels, horses, and walking?
What is overgrazing?
Secret group that organized to end the Yuan Dynasty
What is the White Lotus Society?
System allowing someone to deposit paper money in one location and withdraw the same amount from another
What is flying cash?
Allowed sailors to see how far north or south they were from the equator
What is the astrolabe?
The most precious commodity traded on the trans-Saharan trade route
What is Gold?
Places where human settlement was possible in the Sahara Desert because the land was fertile
What is an oasis?
Heavily walled city that fell to the Ottomans after a 53 day siege
What is Constantinople?
Mongol invention involving Chinese gunpowder, Muslim flamethrowers, and European bell-casting techniques
What is the cannon?
Muslim Chinese man that made 7 great voyages that sparked controversy in China
Who is Zheng He?
Land route that came back into use during the 8th and 9th centuries
What is the revival of the Silk Roads?
Places besides Europe that the Bubonic Plague spread to
North Africa, China, Central Asia
Cities in Germany and Scandinavia that formed an alliance
What is Hanseatic League?
Ghengis Khan's attempt to unify his empire
What is the Uyghur alphabet?
Gold, Ivory, Quartz, Animal skins
What was traded from East Africa in the Indian Ocean?
A stopping point on the Silk Roads between China and the Mediterranean, a center of cultural exchange and trading goods
What is Samarkand?
Things that caused environmental strain
What is political instability and increased agriculture?