Africa
Which territory is unique for its stone architecture and its trade wealth from exporting gold and ivory?
Great Zimbabwe
This capital of the Tibetan empire would pay tribute to the Mongols, while also being the only territory capable of attacking through mountains.
Lhasa
Later named Beijing, this capital of the Yuan dynasty would be one of the biggest cities in the world.
Khanbaliq
Because of its religious importance to both Christianity and Islam, Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta both visited this city in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Jerusalem
This city was the capital of the Mongol Ilkhanate, just south of the Caspian Sea.
Tabriz
We didn't mention them in class, but these two cities were important Islamic cities in East Africa; and Ibn Battuta described one as the dirtiest city he ever visited.
Zeila and Harar.
The Mongol leader Timur built monuments the book describes as "as lavish and exquisite as anything built at any time on earth," in which two territories?
Samarkand and Bukhara
Bagan and Kaesong
These two territories were the largest in the Islamic world, until the Mongol conquests. One would never recover, the other would be recaptured and defend Islam from further invasion.
Baghdad and Damascus
Khorason and Kabul
Known mostly for its impressive stone churches, this territory is connected with two other territories that together represent long lasting Christian kingdoms along the Nile.
Lalibela, Dongola, and Soba.
Gaur, Angkor, and Kalinga
Three East Asian territories would humiliate the Mongols multiple times, as even the addition of the Chinese navy wouldn't be enough to get the Mongols across water.
Kyoto, Java, and Dai Viet
The three territories on the map most associated with Mansa Musa and his generous hajj.
Timbuktu, Cairo, and Mecca
These three cities represent Christians across the English Channel, the North Sea and the Irish Sea.
London, York, and Dublin
Zheng He brought giraffes back to China from one of these 4 territories in East Africa.
Mogadishu, Mombasa, Kilwa, or Sofala.
The four territories in India visited by Ibn Battuta.
Delhi, Khambat, Calicut and Madurai
It is possible Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta never actually traveled to these territories because they write almost nothing about them.
Sumatra, Borneo, Nusantara, and Mait
The Byzantine empire would never recover from the 4th crusade, but if it were going to, these four territories would be necessary.
Thessaloniki, Byzantium (Constantinople), Trebizond, and Konya.
These West African territories were believed by Islamic and European cartographers to be near the mountains of the moon, even though those mountains didn't exist.
Djenne, Gao, Kano, and Njimi
The Maghreb is another name for North Africa, particularly the 4 territories that supplied the last outpost of Muslim Spain (1 point for that territory also).
Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Fez all supported Granada.
The Black and Caspian Seas weren't safe from the Mongol conquests, as this territory and 4 others would be controlled by the Golden Horde for centuries.
Kiev, Moscow, Bolghar, Sarai, Astrakhan
Kublai Khan believed he realized the dream of Genghis Khan when he took these 5 territories; becoming the unquestioned ruler of all of China.
Chang'an, Kaifeng, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou
If the Pope called a crusade, name 5 territories knights would travel from?
Rome, Venice, Genoa, Paris, Toledo, Prague, London, York, or Dublin. Also, Bruges, Lubeck, Hamburg, Bergen or Visby.
These territories surround the Baltic sea.
Bergen, Visby, Novgorod, Riga and Lubeck.