Indian Ocean Trade
Documents were placed in the "geniza" if they contained the word God on them. What religion was this true of?
What is Judaism?
The animal that was well suited to travel over the Silk Roads due to its back humps, long eyelashes and sealable nostrils and the two broad toes on its feet. (Also important on the Trans-Saharan route).
BONUS: Name one of the two deserts that the Silk Roads cross in China.
What is a camel? Specifically a Bactrian camel in Asia.
BONUS: Gobi Desert and Taklamakan Desert
Name the traveler who went with his entourage from Timbuktu to Mecca, stopping in Cairo along the way, and creating long lasting inflation in that city.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Name the European traveler who travels both the Silk roads and the Indian Ocean routes, spending almost 20 years in Yuan Empire China when Kublai Khan is in power.
Who is Marco Polo?
The period of time (over 100 years) when the Mongols guaranteed peaceful trade through the steppes, along the Silk Roads.
What is Pax Mongolica?
Name the Pope who was concerned about the threat Muslims posed to the Holy Land and Constantinople.
Who is Pope Urban II?
Name the non human carrier (s) of the Black Death that ravaged much of Afro-Eurasia from 1346-1350.
Who is fleas and rats?
The political, economic, and social system that dominated medieval Europe characterized by a hierarchical structure of land ownership and mutual obligations between different levels of society.
What is Feudalism?
Name two challenges along the Indian Ocean route.
What is pirates and monsoon winds?
Name TWO major religions that spread along the Silk Routes.
What is Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity?
Name the two main products traded on the Trans-Saharan routes.
What is salt and gold?
Name an Italian city-state that was central to trade in this region (and is known for its canals).
What is Venice?
Name an innovation that the Mongols developed as part of their horse culture, allowing them to better control their horse, sleep, eat, and do battle astride their steeds.
Bonus: What was their most effective weapon?
What is larger and sturdier stirrups?
Bonus- composite bow
List three things and/or ideas that European crusaders took back to Europe from the Middle East.
What is glass making, forks, chivalry, tournaments, mattresses, mirrors, cotton cloth, spices, pasta/ duram wheat, carpets, and shawls, writing paper (to translate Muslim medicine books), wheelbarrows, foods like sugar, spices, dates, coffee, rice and apricots, chess, mathematical knowledge, irrigation methods, words such as bazaar and algebra ?
Name the main reason that the Black Death spread across vast distances.
What is Trade Routes?
Cities such as Cairo, Constantinople, Baghdad, Hangzhou, Paris, and Venice could all be described as ___________since they were centers of diverse ideas, arts, culture, and foods, attracting immigrants from all over.
(clue: it is an adjective that starts with the letter C)
What is Cosmopolitan?
The Arab navigational invention that determined the latitude of a location based on the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
Name two goods (not inventions, ideas or diseases) transported from China to Europe along the Silk Roads.
What is silk, porcelain, and tea?
The Rihla describes this Moroccan traveler's extensive travels covering some 75,000 miles in multiple trips to almost all of the Muslim countries and as far as China and Sumatra (now part of Indonesia).
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Venetian and Genoan traders became wealthy trading with cities such as ____________, the center of the Byzantine empire.
What is Constantinople?
Name three distinct regions of Eurasia that the Mongols conquered.
Where is Persia (middle east), Russia (Europe) and China (Asia)?
Much of the Iberian peninsula was occupied by Muslims for 800 years. The process by which the Christians took it over was called the ______________.
What is the Reconquista?
Name the group of people that were targeted as scapegoats, being falsely accused of poisoning wells and blamed for the spread of the Plague across Europe.
Who are the Jews?
Name a naval technological development present in either the Mediterranean or Indian Ocean?
What is dhows from East Africa, lug and lateen sails in the Indian Ocean (Malay), or Zheng He's huge treasure ships or galleys in the Mediterrean (caravels and galleons were at the end of this time period) ?
Name of the language used on the East African Coast by Muslim traders.
What is Swahili?
Name one POSITIVE long term consequence of the Black Death that traveled across the Silk Road and devastated multiple societies?
Correct answers include:Workers in Demand; Wages increased; Increase in income and standard of living for lower classes; Increased bargaining power for serfs; Peasants acquired more land; ; Leaders of society were discredited (medical, intellectual, political and religious); Increasingly secular (in the arts and in life).
Name the empire that Mansa Musa ruled?
What is Mali?
Name a commodity that European traders wanted from Asia traders to help with food preservation, hygiene and taste.
What is spices?
Name one way that the Mongols encouraged global interactions.
What is : the promotion of international commerce and trade; Expanded diplomatic relationships throughout Eurasia; Exchange of people and cultures through forced transfer of craftsmen and educated people from homelands to distant parts; Encouraged spread of religions (Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism) through religious tolerance; Exchange of Chinese technology and art (painting, printing, gunpowder weapons, compass navigation, high temp furnaces, medical techniques; Islamic ideas of astronomy go East via Mongols.
The fourth crusade was known as an unholy crusade Why?
What is the attacks on the Byzantine empire st the city of Constantinople (fellow Christians)?
Name the place where the Black Death originated and two places it spread to.
Where is China- it spread first to India and the Middle East and then Europe and Northern and Eastern Africa.
Name the process that would later allow Westernization to occur, including the spread of many goods across Asia and the Indian Ocean to Europe.
What is Southernization?
The type of drought resistant rice that went from Vietnam up along the Grand Canal, resulting in the doubling of rice production in China.
What is Champa Rice?
Name one technology that traveled west from China via Bagdhad during the Golden Age of Islam ?
What is magnetic compass, wood block printing, silk weaving, ceramics, and paper making?
Name the place where travelers along the route would rest, meeting others, and gathering water/ supplies (also found on the silk roads).
What is a caravanserai?
A written promise created by Venetian bankers so that one merchant could pay another merchant, either immediately or at a future date. It was used for transferring funds across long distances and to avoid carrying cash.
THINK of it as the ancestor to a modern day check.
What is a bill of notes or bill of exchange?
The name of the dynasty in China when the Mongols ruled especially under Kublai Khan.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
the Muslim general who defeated the crusaders during the 3rd crusade but promised to protect Christian pilgrims and allow them access to Jerusalem?
Who is Saladin?
What is the name of the bacteria that caused the Black Death?
What is Yersinia Pestis?
Name the traveler who took seven voyages across the Indian Ocean that were considered either peaceful diplomatic missions or an intimidating flex for Ming Dynasty China.
Who is Zheng He?