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100

The Mongol conquest carried fleas that carried this disease

What is bubonic plague/Black Death?
100

Multiple clans of pastoral nomads who started the largest land-based empire in human history

What is the Mongol Empire?
100

The crop that led to a skyrocketing population in China

What is Champa rice?

100

Valuable goods brought by China

What is silk, porcelain, paper, and gunpowder?

100

Two languages that make up the Swahili language

What is Bantu and Arabic?

200

The reason people in the Sahara desert preferred camels over horses

What is the arid climate and scarcity of water?
200

Religious leader who distributed wealth and Islam throughout Mali

Who is Mansa Musa?

200

Used for many different purposes in the trans-Saharan trade routes, namely storing a large amount of goods at once for increased efficiency

What is a camel saddle?

200

A Chinese system of credit allowing a merchant to deposit paper money at one location and withdraw the same amount at another

What is flying cash?

200

Islam spread through port cities via this method

Who are merchants of Muslim faith marrying wives that chose to convert to Islam?

300

A period of Mongolian peace and religious tolerance

What is the Pax Mongolica?

300

A 100,000 person Mongol army which conquered small Russian kingdoms and forced them to pay tribute, led by Batu Khan

What is the Golden Horde?

300

Locations for flying cash in Europe in the 1300s, became the models for modern banks

What are banking houses?

300

A term used to describe modern-day Malaysia and Indonesia due to their exports of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom

What is the Spice Islands?

300

Center of culture in southern China, where many notable poets resided

What is Hangzhou?

400

Seasonal, knowledge of which being paramount to trade in the Indian Ocean

What is monsoon winds?

400

Often advised monarchs on government matters under the Sinhala dynasties

What are Buddhist priests?

400

Innovation which improved seafaring on the Indian Ocean

What is the lateen sail/stern rudder/astrolabe/magnetic compass/junk?

400

Why merchants on the Silk Roads would typically bring only luxury goods

What is a limited carrying capacity?

400

Religion spread to China via the Silk Roads

What is Buddhism?

500

Collected additional tribute for the Mongols, used to develop an army to rise up and defeat the Golden Horde, causing the start of an independent country

What is Moscow?

500

Dynasty founded after the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown

What is the Ming Dynasty?

500

Created by engineers captured by the Mongols, examples include a catapult

What are siege machines?

500
How the Pax Mongolica impacted trade throughout the Silk Roads
What is the increased security, leading to a golden age of trade on the Silk Roads?
500

Resulted in African customs and musical styles showing up in places such as Oman and India

What is the Indian Ocean slave trade?

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