SILK ROADS
The Silk Roads connected East Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and this continent.
What is Europe?
This founder of the Mongol Empire lived from about 1162 to about 1227.
Who is Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khan)?
Between 1405 and 1433, this Ming admiral led massive treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean.
Who is Zheng He?
The invention of the saddle for this animal allowed merchants to carry heavier loads across the desert.
What is the camel?
This Italian poet wrote the Divine Comedy, which blended cultural and religious traditions in Europe.
Who is Dante?
The bubonic plague spread along trade networks in the mid-14th century and is known by this name.
What is the Black Death?
This word names the inns along trade routes that gave merchants and caravans safe lodging.
What is a caravanserai?
In this sport, scoring one under par on a hole is called a birdie, and two under is an eagle.
What is golf?
This Central Asian trading city became a key Silk Roads stop, known as a center of culture and learning.
What is Samarkand?
This ruler established the Yuan Dynasty in China, blending Chinese governance with Mongol military dominance.
Who is Kublai Khan?
The port city of Calicut, a major hub for the spice trade, sits on this coast of India.
What is the Malabar Coast?
Gold, ivory, and slaves were traded across the Sahara, along with this mineral from desert mines.
What is salt?
This traveler's journeys across the Islamic world, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, showed the diversity and unity of Dar al-Islam.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This crop spread from South Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, shaping local economies and diets.
What is sugarcane?
Merchants timed their Indian Ocean voyages to these predictable winds that alternated between northeast and southwest.
What are monsoon winds?
In this animated Pixar film, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a chef in Paris.
What is Ratatouille?
Chinese artisans increased production of these two luxury goods, which were traded across the Silk Roads and Indian Ocean routes.
What are porcelains and silk textiles?
This Venetian merchant's travels highlighted the interconnectedness of Mongol-controlled territories.
Who is Marco Polo?
Originally developed in China, this navigation tool let sailors steer more accurately across open seas.
What is the compass?
Mansa Musa ruled this West African empire, which controlled key trade routes and cities.
What is Mali?
Islamic scholars translated and preserved the philosophical texts of this ancient civilization, later passed to Europe.
What is Greece (the Greeks)?
Population loss from the plague caused this problem, which weakened feudal economies and gave surviving peasants more bargaining power.
What are labor shortages?
Latin for "Mongol Peace," this term describes the secure trade routes the Mongols created across Eurasia.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister's place in the games in this dystopian novel series by Suzanne Collins.
What is The Hunger Games?
During the Song Dynasty, this prosperous city had bustling markets and access to luxury goods like silk and tea.
What is Hangzhou?
After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, this dynasty restored Chinese governance in China.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
The Sultanate of Malacca grew powerful by controlling this critical choke point in Indian Ocean trade.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
In 1324 to 1325, Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to this city, distributing gold along the way.
What is Mecca?
The Mongol sack of this city in 1258 contributed to its decline as a center of influence.
What is Baghdad?
Ships traveling from the Black Sea brought the plague to Europe in this year.
What is 1347?
The Mongols used this network of relay stations so messengers could travel quickly across the empire.
What is the Yam system?
A high school chemistry teacher named Walter White turns to making drugs in this TV drama.
What is Breaking Bad?
These two commercial developments reduced the need for merchants to carry heavy coinage over long distances.
What are credit systems (bills of exchange) and money economies?
Persian administrative practices were introduced into Mongol governance in this khanate, which ruled Persia.
What is the Ilkhanate?
Arab merchants in East Africa helped develop this language, which blends Bantu and Arabic elements.
What is Swahili?
Islamic architecture in these two West African trading hubs reflects cultural integration from trans-Saharan trade.
What are Gao and Timbuktu?
Along with Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, this traveler left detailed accounts of his journeys; his travels ran from 629 to 645 CE.
Who is Xuanzang?
The spread of Champa rice from Vietnam to China during the Song Dynasty allowed this big change in food production.
What is multiple harvests per year?
These merchant settlements in trading hubs blended their own traditions with local cultures and served as trade intermediaries.
What are diasporic communities?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are old school friends of the title prince in this Shakespeare tragedy.
What is Hamlet?