Vocabulary
Major Turkic empire established in Persia in the early 16th century and notable for its efforts to convert its people to Shia Islam.
Safavid Empire
Name of the Russian portion of the Mongol Empire.
Khanate of the Golden Horde
A fairly small-scale commerce in enslaved people, exporting West African slaves across the Sahara for sale in Islamic North Africa.
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Famous Chinese eunuch/admiral who explored far and wide throughout the Indian Ocean.
Zheng He
The Silk Roads were a series of routes that connected these two worlds.
China (Far East) and Islamic or Mediterranean world
The largest religious structure in the premodern world, located in modern Cambodia. Built in the 12th century to express the Hindu understanding of the cosmos. It was later used by Buddhists.
Angkor Wat
Mongol Dynasty initiated by Khubilai Khan that ruled China from 1271 to 1368.
Yuan Dynasty
A major commercial city of West African civilization and a noted center of Islamic scholarship and education.
Timbuktu
Name a technology that was created to better sail the Indian Ocean network.
Lateen Sail, Astrolabe, Dhow hulled ships
This animal was vital for the Chinese to remain dominate in the Silk Road trade that if you were caught smuggling it out of the empire you were executed for treason.
Silk worm
Dynasty noted for its return to traditional Chinese ways and restoration of the land after the destructiveness of the Mongols.
Ming Dynasty
Name of the Islamic portion of the Mongol Empire.
Il-Khanate
"Ships of the Desert", the domestication of this animal made traversing the Sand Roads not only possible but also profitable.
The camel
East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century as a set of commercial city-states linked into the Indian Ocean trade network. They served to move goods to the interior of Africa.
Swahili Civilization
What types of goods (category) were primarily traveled on the Silk Roads and why?
Luxury goods - ease of transport and worth of product.
Malay kingdom that dominated the critical choke point in the Indian Ocean trade at the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025.
Srivijaya
The Bubonic Plague is often associated with the Mongol Empire, why?
The reopening of the Silk Roads and the expansion of long-distance trade led to the spread of the bubonic plague.
An academic center for research and translation of foreign texts that was established by the Abbasids in Baghdad in 830.
House of Wisdom
A powerful state in the southern African interior that emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast.
Great Zimbabwe
Besides goods what else traveled along the Silk Roads.
Religion and disease
Term used describe the half a century of military campaigns, massive killing, and empire building under Genghis Khan and his successors.
Mongol World War
John Green in his videos likes to refer to the Mongols as the exception to many rules or tropes in World History. Give an example of what made the Mongols different from previous empire builders.
Answers will vary.
Name of desert havens which served as trading posts, protection, and inns.
Caravanserai
What type of goods were traded on the Sea Roads and why?
Bulk goods - easier to carry long distances
The Mongols re-vitalized the Silk Road trade by ensuring the safety of merchants and travelers by issuing these objects.
Clay passports