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Who is an Italian native from Venice who was fascinated by Chinese cities?
Who is Marco Polo?
What are Lateen sails?
Triangular sails invented by Arab sailors, that could catch winds from different directions helping with, faster explorations.
Where did Neo-Confucianism spread?
What is Japan, Vietnam, and Korea?
What is Mali?
What is a country who's government profited from gold trade. They also taxed nearly all other trade entering West Africa.
What was a society that was formed to overthrow Mongolian rule in China?
What was the White Lotus Society?
Who is Margery Kemp?
An illiterate writer who described her book to scribes who then wrote it down for them
What is, gave ships more stability and made ships easier to maneuver?
What is the stern rudder?
How was Zen Buddhism created?
By fusing Buddhist doctrines and Daoist traditions together.
What is the world-renowned center of Islamic learning located in Mali?
What is Timbuktu?
What was Pax Mongolica?
What was the Eurasian history during the 13th and 14th centuries where Mongolia was at peace?
Who is a traveler who traveled for 30 years and visited mainly Muslim lands. He later wrote a book titles "A gift to Those who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling."
Who is Ibn Battuta?
What is Caravanseri?
What are inns 100 miles apart along the Silk roads, that gave travelers a place to rest and trade?
What did Islam do in the Indian Ocean trade?
Connected more cities.
What is the Sanghai Kingdom?
What is a kingdom that took it's place as the powerhouse in West Africa by the lat 1400's. It became even larger and more prosperous than Mali?
The commercial alliance formed between Germany and Scandinavia that controlled trade in the North and Baltic Sea
What was the Hanseatic League?
Who is Mansa Musa?
Who is Sundiata's grand-nephew. He was better known for his religious leadership than for his political leadership.
What is a government developed system of credit used for everyday transactions.
What is flying cash?
How did religion spread through trade in the Indian Ocean trade?
Through diasporic communities
What is the city that became wealthy by building a navy and imposing fees on ships that passed through the straight of Melacca?
What is Melacca/Melaka?
What did Genghois want to do with the Uyghur Alphabet?
What is unify the country?
Who is a crippled king who, despite his injury is a skilled and fearsome warrior.
Who is Sundiata?
What is an astrolabe?
What is helped determined how far north or south Muslim navigators were from the equator?
How was Zheng He different from other Chinese generals?
He was a Muslim, Chinese
What is Gujarat?
What is a western Indian Rajput Kingdom that became the go-between for trade between the East and West.
What led to soil erosion?
What is deforestation and overgrazing?