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100

This religion was founded by a prince as he was searching for the meaning of life. 

What is Buddhism?
100

This is a term that describes the many connections between trading locations. 

What are networks? 

100

This desert is the one that is in North Africa and part of the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes. 

What is the Sahara Desert? 

100

This is a term used to describe someone who buys and sells things along a trade route. 

What is a merchant or trader? 

100

This is what sailors could find with the astrolabe. 

What are heavenly bodies and (or) their latitude? 

200

What is one of the key beliefs of Buddhists? 

What is the Middle Way, The Eightfold Path, or the Four Noble Truths? Or moderation in general

200

This term describes a connection to oceans or seas. 

What is maritime? 

200

This is the desert where Muhammad's religion was created. 

What is the Arabian Desert? 
200

Traveled from Mali with huge amounts of gold on his way to Hajj in Mecca. 

Who is Mansa Musa? 

200

This allowed merchants to travel more lightly and more safely instead of traveling with metals. 

What are paper money, bills of exchange, or banking houses? 

300

This religion was started in Arabia in the 7th Century CE. 

What is Islam? 
300

Along with goods these also traveled along trade routes. 

What are cultural ideas, technology, beliefs? (cultural diffusion) 

300

These provided a predictable and reliable wind pattern for sailors in the Indian Ocean. 

What are monsoons or monsoon winds? 

300
Who is the Muslim trader that left Morocco for 30 years to travel all around the world on his way to and from the Hajj. 

Who is Ibn Battuta?

300

This is one of the goods that traveled FROM China to Arabia, Europe and Africa 

What is gunpowder, compass, paper money, silk?

400
This is the blending of local beliefs with beliefs that have traveled to a new region through cultural diffusion. 

What is syncretism? 

400

These allowed people to sail into the wind. 

What are lateen sails? 
400

This city in North Africa had paper, cotton, and other goods to trade. It is near the Red Sea. 

What is Cairo? 
400

This empire stretched across Asia and to Europe and helped keep the Silk Routes safe for merchants. 

Who are the Mongols? 
400
What was made in England and exported to the rest of the world via the trade routes? 

What is wool? 

500
These are the three main manifestations of Brahman in Hinduism. 

What are Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma? 

500
These were established along trade routes and allowed merchants to travel farther because were protected from bandits and weather. 

What are caravanserai? 

500

This is the city in Southeast Asia where many of the traders traveled to and from. It is where modern day Malaysia is today. 

What is Malacca? 
500

What was the name of the bacteria that caused the Black Plague? 

What is Yersinia Pestis? 

500

This is what Cairo, Egypt experienced because of the amount of gold brought their on a ruler's Hajj expedition. 

What is inflation?