All Roads Lead Here
Group who voted on laws
What is the Senate?
This mineral was vital to the diets of people in humid West Africa
What is salt?
The silk traded on the Silk Road was most highly valued here
What is Rome?
The strategy of using disease-infected bodies as weapons against an enemy
What is germ warfare?
The Pillar of Islam that means "pilgrimage to Mecca"
What is Hajj?
The Roman economy depended on this exploitative practice
What is slavery?
The belief that spirits and souls surround us in the natural world
What is animism?
Provided shelter to merchants on the Silk Road
What were caravanserais?
These people, oddly, actually *benefited* from the Black Death in Europe
Who were peasants, merchants, and traders?
This book summarized all the known medical knowledge in Baghdad's "Golden Age"
What is the Canon of Medicine
By this Roman practice, a man would become the slave of someone to whom he owed money.
What is debt bondage?
Developed superior iron weapons
Who were the Nok people?
Name THREE types of items traded along the Silk Road, other than silk
What are spices, porcelain, cotton, tea and/or precious metals?
Their isolation and marginalization, ironically, often saved them from the Plague
Who were the Jews?
Paid scholars to bring texts from around the world to Baghdad
What is the Translation Movement?
During his 41 years of his rule, he restored and built 82 temples
Who was Augustus?
A semi arid region in Africa, separating the Sahara and tropical savannas
What is the Sahel?
This kind of camel traveled the Silk Road
What were Bactrian OR Arabian?
The Black Death first came to this European city.
Where is Messina, Italy?
Nickname of the Abbasid's capital
The "Round City"
Cramped Roman apartments
What were insulae?
2,600 mile express route of goods to places like Mali, Ghana, and Songhai
What is the Niger River?
The largest city along the Silk Road
What is Chang'an?
The body parts that first swelled with "buboes" when a plague victim was infected
What are the groin and armpits?
The sayings and deeds of the prophet Muhammed
What is the Hadith?