Medieval Travelers
This Venetian merchant travelled across Asia and served in the court of Kublai Khan for years.
Who is Marco Polo?
The capital of this empire was Constantinople.
What is the Eastern Roman Empire / Byzantine Empire?
These famous trade routes connected all parts of the medieval world and were named after the lightweight, valuable textile from China.
What are the Silk Roads?
He was the Great Khan and first ruler of the Mongol Empire.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This European explorer "sailed the ocean blue" in 1492 and encountered the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This Viking traveller was the first European to land in the Americas.
Who is Leif Erikson?
This was the largest contiguous land empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This trade zone was made predictable by the monsoon winds of this region.
What is Indian Ocean trade?
This animal was central to the lifestyle and military dominance of the Mongols.
What is a horse?
What are commoners, clergy, and nobility?
This Chinese admiral went on seven treasure voyages for the Ming Dynasty.
Who is Zheng He?
Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope as the ruler of this empire in the year 800.
What was the Holy Roman Empire?
This animal made the challenging travel across the hot Sahara desert possible.
What is a camel?
This was the name of the division of the Mongol Empire in Eastern Europe.
What is the Golden Horde?
This valuable textile was made of gold and silk, and woven by weavers from Baghdad.
What is gold broccade?
This Muslim scholar was probably the most well-travelled person in history before the invention of the train.
Ibn Battuta
This early caliphate was the largest Islamic empire.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
This is the name given to the period of relative stability, peace, and ease of trade under the Mongol Empire.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
She orchestrated the division of the Mongol Empire to help elect her son, Mongke, as Great Khan.
Who is Sorqoqtani Beki?
This Islamic state stopped the Mongol conquest of West Asia at the battle of Ain Jalut.
What is the Mamluk sultanate?
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Who is Vasco da Gama?
This empire cemented Islam in northern India.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
This Silk Road trade good was found in the taiga of Siberia.
What are furs?
These "holy winds" prevented the Mongol conquest of Japan on two separate occasions.
What are the kamikaze?
This book was written by Murasaki Shikibu in 11th century Japan and is considered to be the first novel.
What is the Tale of Genji?