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The Mongols helped facilitate trade by creating safety on this trade route.
What is the Silk Road?
The period of Eurasian history between the 13th and 14th centuries is often called_______ or Mongolian peace.
What is Pax Mongolia?
This disease was spread through the Mongol conquest from southern China to central Asia, and from there to southeast Asia to Europe. It is also known as the black death.
What is the Black/bubonic plague?
A devout Muslim, Mansa Musa, began a pilgrimage at this place, 1324, which is also Islam's holiest city.
What is Mecca?
These islands got their name because of their fragran nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and cardamon they exported.
What is the Spice Islands?
This nomadic empire conducted the Abbasid caliphate in 1258 and in the 14th century China came under their control.
What is the Mongol empire?
This Mongol leader was born in 1162 and spent the early decades of his life creating a series of tribal alliances and defeating neighboring groups one by one
Who is Genghis Khan (Temulis)?
These winds were very important for trading in the Indian ocean. In the winter they blow from the northeast and in the summer they blow from the southwest.
What are the Monsoon winds?
This religion, whose main goal was to reach nirvana, came to China from its birthplace in India via the Silk Roads?
What is Buddhism?
This type of economy uses money rather than bartering with such commodities as cowrie shells or salt.
What is the Money economy?
Batu's army, which came to be known as this , marched westward, conquering the small Russian kingdoms and forcing them to pay tributes.
What is the Golden Horde?
Adhering closer to Chinese tradition, rather than enforcing Mongolian practices of leadership and control. Kublai Khan established this dynasty.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
While the east African coast had been fairly well populated for many centuries before the arrival of Islam, few societies had inherited this desert because its arid climate made it nearly impossible to farm. It was also used as part of the global trade network.
What is the Sahara desert?
As a part of slave trade in this network of exchange, African words, musical style, and costumes, can be found in Oman, India, and elsewhere.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
This form of money/credit allowed merchants to pay for goods or taxes without having to transport coins.
What is flying cash?
This Muslim explorer wrote a book about his travels called the Rihla.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The rulers of this city-state began collecting additional tributes, which they set aside to develop an army to resist the Mongols, and began building an anti- Mongol coalition among the Russian city-states.
What is Moscow?
In the 12th century, the Mongols were multiple clans of pastoral nomads who herded goats and sheep and were also hunter-foragers, north of this desert in East Asia.
What is the Gobi desert?
This city is located in western China and was a stop on the Silk Road and was a trading center.
What is Kashgar?
A document stating the holder was legally promised payment of a set amount on a set date is known as this.
What is a Bill Of Exchange?
This organization put an end to the Yuan Dynasty in the late 1350s which later led to the creation of the Ming dynasty.
What is the White Lotus Society?
This kingdom, owned by Hulagu, was located in Central Asia and stretched from Byzantium to the Oxus river, which is now called the Amu Darya.
What is Il-khanate?
This is a place where human settlement is possible because water from deep underground is brought to the surface, making land fertile. In some oases, the water comes from underground naturally.
What is an Oases?
This city, in present day Uzbekistan in the Zeravshan River valley, was a stopping point on the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean. It was also a center of cultural exchange as much as it was a center for trading goods.
What is Samarkand?
Cities on the west coast of India, such as this and Cambay, became thriving centers of trade due to interactions with merchants from Arabia and China met here to exchange goods from the west to the east.
What is Calicut?