Mongols
Who was the legendary leader of the Mongol Empire, who founded the Yuan Dynasty in China, and conquered most of the known world during the 13th century?
Who is Genghis Khan?
What religion was spread predominantly among the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
What is Islam?
What was the name of the ancient Chinese invention, consisting of a magnetized needle floating in water or on a pivot, which revolutionized navigation and enabled sailors to determine direction using the Earth's magnetic field?
What is magnetic compass?
What environmental factor most affected traders on the Indian Ocean trade routes?
What are monsoon winds?
Ruler of the Mali Empire?
Who is Mansa Muse?
What term is used to describe the period of relative peace and stability that was established across much of Asia during the 13th and 14th centuries under the Mongol Empire's rule?
What is Pax Mongolica?
What term refers to the process of combining two or more distinct religious traditions into a new form such as the sufism or buddhist versions?
What is Syncretism?
What was the name of the medieval financial institution, which emerged in the 1200-1450 time period, and specialized in money-changing, credit, loans, and international transfers of funds, thereby facilitating commerce, investment, and economic growth?
What is banking house?
East Asia and the Mediterranean Sea were connected by which trade route?
What is the Silk Roads?
Which two groups interacted at the western end of the Silk Road?
Who are Crusader's and Muslim merchants?
Mongols did what with conquered nations innovations/achievements?
What is incorporated and spread them within their own empire?
What form of buddhism was actively spread by Mongol rulers?
What is Tibetan Buddhism?
What effect did the development of commerce based trade routes have on the afro-eurasian area?
What is led to growth of trade based cities?
What was the name of the ancient roadside inn or way station, commonly found along trade routes in the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, which provided accommodation, food, water, and shelter to travelers and their animals, as well as serving as centers of commerce, communication, and cultural exchange?
What is Caravanserai?
This group experienced have persecution during and after the epidemic of the Bubonic Plague.
Who are the Jews?
How did the Mongols contribute to the spread of the Bubonic Plague in Western Europe?
Catapulted diseased bodies into cities who then fled and spread it to Western Europe.
What technology aided in the development of trans saharan trade routes?
What are camels/caravans/caravanserai's?
What strategic waterway that linked China, India, and Southeast Asia during the 7th to 13th centuries, was controlled by the powerful Srivijaya Empire?
What is the Strait of Malacca?
What happened to the Mongol Empire following Genghis Kahn's death?
What is it was split into khanates?
This was the main intellectual contribution from the Arabs.
What is the numeric system?
How did Mongol control of the Silk Road contribute to it's safety and efficiency?
Control by one empire eliminated bureaucracy such as different taxes under different rulers.