Trade & the Silk Roads
This network of trade routes connected China with civilizations farther west.
What are the Silk Roads?
A person who follows Islam is called this.
What is a Muslim?
Axum became the first major sub-Saharan African state to embrace this religion.
What is Christianity?
In the feudal system, these peasants were tied to the land and farmed food for the rest of society.
Who are serfs?
The Bubonic Plague was primarily transmitted to humans through bites from these tiny creatures.
What are fleas?
Strong governments helped Silk Road trade by providing this important benefit to merchants.
What is protection/safety along trade routes?
This man is the founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
Kush was primarily located in this modern-day African country.
What is Sudan?
This man united the Mongols and waged war on the rest of Eurasia.
Who was Genghis Khan/Chinggis Khan/Temujin?
These transportation and commercial networks helped the plague travel rapidly across continents.
What are trade routes/the Silk Roads?
The Silk Roads carried more than physical goods. Name two other things that could spread along them.
What are ideas, religions, cultures, technologies, and/or diseases? (Any two)
Muslims who are able are expected to make a pilgrimage to this holy city at least once in their lifetime.
What is Mecca?
This wealthy ruler of Mali became famous for his Hajj to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
After Rome fell, people increasingly turned to local rulers for this, helping feudalism develop.
What are protection/safety?
Medieval doctors struggled to stop the Black Death largely because they lacked this.
What is an accurate understanding of the cause and transmission of disease?
Although built for protection rather than trade, this Chinese structure was designed to defend against nomadic invaders from the north.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Prayer, charity, fasting, declaration of faith, and pilgrimage make up these central practices of Islam.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
This famous Muslim traveler visited Mali and commented positively on the kingdom's justice and safety.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This feature of the Roman Empire made it particularly difficult to defend.
What is its enormous size?
What religious explanation frequently was cited as the cause of the Plague?
What is God's punishment?
The Silk Roads contributed to both economic prosperity AND one of the greatest disasters of the post-classical era. What was that disaster?
What is the Black Death?
After Muhammad's death, disagreement over leadership contributed to Islam dividing into these two major branches.
What are Sunni and Shia?
Kush, Axum, Ghana, and Mali were located in different parts of Africa, but their success had this major economic factor in common.
What is controlling/participating in important trade routes (geography)?
The Mongols originated as nomadic tribes from this region.
What is northwest of China (the Central Asian steppes)?
After the Black Death killed millions of Europeans, surviving workers were often able to demand this.
What are higher wages?