World Religions
The religion that originated on the Arabian Peninsula.
What is Islam?
The Black Death, plague that spread from Central Asia in the 14th century killed a third to half of the population of ___________, as well as the Middle East and parts of Africa where Ibn Battuta and Zheng He would both later travel.
What is Europe?
The traveler who went 75,000 miles across all of Dar al Islam, recording his travels later in the Rihla.
These winds in the Indian Ocean were seasonal, determining when traders could go south or north.
What is monsoon winds?
As the Islamic world spread quickly across the Middle East and around the Mediterranean in the century after the death of Mohammad, this city grew in importance for education (House of Wisdom) and trade as a crossroad between Africa, Europe and Asia. Under the Abassids, it allowed non Arab Muslims, such as Persians, to rise in status and live in equals (though there still was a slave market).
What is Baghdad?
What is the Hajj?
The system in Europe where large landowners (typically nobles or church leaders) organized their land and the peasants (serfs) who worked it, commanding knights as vassals to protect their lands.
What is manorialism (or feudalism)?
The traveler who went to China and was impressed by all he saw, including the beautiful city of Hangzhou, as well as paper money.
Two important commodities that were traded along the Trans-Saharan route, one of which resulted in temporarily destroying the economy of Egypt after Mansa Musa's visit.
What is gold and salt?
During the Song dynasty, the development of what new grain from Vietnam, provided higher yields to support the growing population of southern China.
What is champa rice?
The Crusaders sought to regain territory in what place that was the birthplace of the all three Abrahamic faiths-- Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
What is the Holy Lands?
The pope who called upon European Christians to take back Jerusalem (and come to the rescue of the Byzantines).
What is Pope Urban II?
The Muslim Admiral from China who did a pilgrimage to Mecca as part of one of his voyages, bringing back a giraffe and many gifts from nations wanting to pay tribute to China.
What is Zheng He?
A Swahili city on the East African coast that Ibn Battuta and Zheng He both visited due to its wealth and importance on the Indian Ocean trade routes. Known for its trading of natural resources such as ivory, timber, animal skins, incense, rock crystal, and ambergris, as well as gold, copper and iron. (And Dr. J thinks the toilets are cool too.)
What is Kilwa?
Name three new foods brought back from the Middle east by Crusaders.
Sugar, spices, dates, coffee, rice and apricots
(Technologies and ideas-- forks, mattresses, bed sheets, paper-making, mirrors, numbers, algebra, chess, water wheels and water clocks, new style of irrigation, medicine, dyes...)
Scrolls from this religion were brought from it's birthplace in India to Dunhuang, China by Xuanzang and later "stolen" by Aurel Stein and taken to the British Museum.
What is Buddhism?
Al Andalus refers parts of territory on the Iberian peninsula that was part of the Islamic world from 711 CE until 1492. What was the name of the policy / process that the Spanish Catholics used to refer to regaining control of Portugal and Spain?
What is Reconquista?
Zheng He was captured as a young boy, later becoming a trusted advisor to the Yongle emperor, and then an admiral for seven treasure ship voyages. What is the term for him having been made "less of a man" in order to allow him into the Chinese court?
What is a eunoch?
Three most famous technologies that traveled west on the Silk roads.
What is compass, print making and gunpowder? Stirrups and Paper would also be accepted.
What is astrolabe?
The Chinese belief system that evolved during the Axial age and included ideas such as filial piety. The reemergence of this belief system during the Ming Dynasty contributed to ending Zheng He's voyages.
What is Confucianism?
The term that the historian Lynda Shaffer coined which represents the contributions made by the Chinese, South and Southeast Asians, and Muslims, later allowing westernization to take place.
What is southernization?
The name of the repository of Jewish documents often found near synagogues where letters such as the one from the Jewish merchant in Cambay have been found.
What is geniza?
Name one of the deserts that provide a challenging aspect of travel on the Silk roads.
What is Gobi OR Taklamalan?
According to oral history told by ___________, Mansa Musa was a descendant of Sundiata, the lion king of Mali who united the empire and inspired Disney to later create The Lion King.
What are griots?