Pre-History
What A.D means
What is "Anno Domini" After Death?
This land-based trade route connected China to the Mediterranean and helped spread goods, ideas, and diseases.
What is the Silk Road?
This powerful West African ruler made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca, showing off his wealth.
What is Mansa Musa?
This European country was the first to explore and establish a sea-based empire in Africa and Asia, led by Prince Henry the Navigator.
What is Portugal?
The Indian Ocean Trade connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and this powerful East Asian country.
What is China?
Judicial, executive and legislative branches
What is the Separation of Powers?
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
This empire expanded the Silk Road trade and protected merchants during the Pax Mongolica.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This empire controlled trade in the Indian Ocean with its massive navy during the 15th century under Zheng He.
What is the Ming Dynasty (China)?
This East African city-state grew wealthy by controlling trade and exporting gold, ivory, and slaves.
What is Kilwa?
refers to the 100 years from 1901 to 2000.
What is the 20th Century?
Land-based routes in West Africa that connected the region to the Middle East, exchanging gold and other goods.
What is Trans-Saharan Trade Routes?
The Mongols were known for their skill in this form of warfare, especially while riding horses.
What is archery on horseback?
This Spanish explorer circumnavigated the globe, proving that the world was round and that the oceans were connected.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Merchants carried goods like spices, textiles, and porcelain, but they also spread these two cultural elements through trade.
What is the religion and language?
The earliest period of human history, characterized by the use of stone tools.
What is the Stone Age?
This Mongol leader united the steppe nomads and expanded trade and communication across Eurasia.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This period of relative peace under Mongol rule allowed for increased cultural exchange, trade, and the movement of technologies like gunpowder and paper.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
This European empire grew powerful through its control of colonies in the Americas, extracting silver and gold.
What is Spain?
This religion spread widely along the Indian Ocean Trade routes, influencing regions from East Africa to Southeast Asia.
What is Islam?
The time before written records.
What is Prehistory?
Who did Spain hire to fine a new trade route but found another continent instead
What is Columbus?
After Genghis Khan’s death, the Mongol Empire was divided into four regions called these.
What is the Khanates?
This Dutch company became one of the wealthiest and most powerful trading companies, dominating spice trade routes in Southeast Asia.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This seasonal wind system allowed merchants to reliably sail across the Indian Ocean, linking East Africa, the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia.
What are the monsoon winds?