States
Founded by Genghis Khan, this Eurasian state was the largest land empire in the world c. 1300 AD.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This religion originated on the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century AD. It quickly spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.
What is Islam?
Luxury Goods, religion, and disease traveled on this network of exchange, which connected East Asia with the Middle East and Europe.
What is the Great Silk Road?
This explosive invention is credited to Tang Dynasty China, however, its first military usage was under the Song Dynasty. It spread from East Asia to the Middle East and Europe through the Mongol Conquests.
What is gunpowder?
This period of relative peace and stability on the Great Silk Road led to numerous banking and credit innovations in addition to the exchange of luxury goods and ideas.
What is Pax Mongolica?
This state was noted for selling luxury good on the Great Silk Road, such as porcelain, silk, and tea, until it was conquered by the Mongols in 1279 AD.
What is the Song Dynasty?
Though it originated in the Middle East, this religion became the dominant belief system in Europe after its adoption by the late Roman Empire.
What is Christianity?
Monsoon winds were a crucial factor in mostly maritime network of exchange.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
High-yield rice that can be harvested twice a year. Allowed East Asia to feed the largest cities in the world, c. 1200-1450 AD.
What is Champa Rice?
The founder of the Mongol Empire. His mounted archers stormed our of Central Asia and created the largest, contiguous land empire in history
This state, based in Baghdad, was widely-known for its House of Wisdom. It fell in 1258 to Heluga Khan and the Mongols.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This religion originated in the Middle East, but spread widely throughout the world after the Romans forced a diaspora in the first century AD. Subsequently, many of this religion faced persecutions and pogroms.
What is Judaism?
This disease spread along the Great Silk Road and devastated the populations of Europe and the Middle East.
What is the Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
This type of triangular sail allowed ships on the Indian Ocean Trade Network to catch wind from any direction
What are lateen sails?
The Mongols often adopted the religion of the regions and states they conquered, however, the religion practiced in Mongolia involved the worship of a sky god and spirits of the rivers and mountains, which is an example of this type of religion.
What is Animism?
The first Muslim-run state in India; centered in the northern portion of modern-day India.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
This belief system forms the basis of much of Chinese culture and society. It is named for a teacher and philosopher that lived in China in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Filial piety is among this belief system's most important tenets.
What is Confucianism?
Gold, salt, and slaves made up the bulk of the items traded on this African network of exchange.
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Network?
This road system linked the Incan Empires various settlements in the Andes Mountains. It was built and maintained through the Mita system, which utilized labor as opposed to goods for taxation.
What is Carpa Nan?
This type of warrior, utilized by the Mongols, Turks, and many other central Asian warriors, was particularly effective in battle in the time period c. 1200 - 1450.
What is a horseback archer?
A majority Hindu state, this empire was located in the southern portion of the Indian subcontinent and relied on trade from the Indian Ocean Trade Network
What is the Vijayanagara Empire?
This religion is predominantly practiced in the Indian Subcontinent. Its foundational holy texts are known as Vedas.
What is Hinduism?
This man, widely considered the richest man to ever live, amassed immense wealth in gold due to Mali's participation in the Trans-Saharan trade network.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Along with many other innovations, the Chinese are credited with inventing wood-block printing and this creation, both of which would spread around the world and increase literacy rates everywhere.
What is paper?
This state defeated the Mongols in their attempted invasion of Egypt, the first defeat for the Mongols.
What is the Mamluk Sultanate?