The Silk Roads
Name two products that were traded along the Silk Roads?
The first great Khan was called
Ghengis Khan
What was the main source of transportatation along Trans-Saharan trade routes?
Camels
How was the plague transported from one Asia over the Europe?
Along trade routes
By fleas
By rats
This city was a major trading port in southern India that had all of the major technology that allowed sailing across the Indian Ocean to be possible.
Calicut
What was carried by fleas and rats along these trade routes?
Bubonic plague
Which great Islamic city containing many houses of wisdom was sacked by the Mongols?
Communitites of people, such as the Jews, from other areas who moved from one place to another, lived in the common areas and introduced their own cultural practices to local cultures were called...
Diasporic communities
What continent first suffered an outbreak from the Black Death?
Asia
Major trading port for silk and ceramics along the Indian Ocean trade routes
Guangzhou
Where did the manufacture of steel expand during this time period?
China
Name two ways that the Mongols united their empire.
Adopted the Uygher script for writing, established messaging systems, built bridges and roads, controlled the Silk roads so that they were peaceful etc.
Name two trade goods that were commonly traded along the Trans-Saharan trade routes
Gold, salt, slaves, ivory
What is ONE consequence of the plague on populations of cities in Europe?
The population decreased
Major wind that blow across the Indian Ocean and affect trade routes
Monsoon Winds
What invention helped merchants to not have to carry actual gold and silver along with them on the trade routes?
Paper money
The name of the peace brought by the Mongols?
Pax Mongolica
City at the center of the Trans-Saharan trade routes and the Mali empire. Famous for it's mosques, wealth and trade.
Timbuktu
What did Jani Beg, the Mongol commander, do to spread the plague in the seige of Caffa?
Catapulted the bodies of soldiers who died from the plague over the walls of the city
Gold, salt, ivory were trading goods that came out of which cities? (0r area)
West Africa, Mogidishu,
One famous Islamic traveler along the Silk Roads told us a lot about the cities that he traveled to. What was his name?
Ibn Buttata
What was the Mongol Khanate that controlled Russia called?
The Golden Horde
Great king in the Mali Empire that is famous for his trip to Mecca and all of the gold he spent along the way.
Mansa Musa
The lower classes in Europe were able to begin to ask for ___________ because there was a decrease in the work for force due to the plague
Wages, better working conditions, etc.
Vessel used by Chinese sailors to cross the seas during the middle ages
Chinese junk