Silk Roads
This is the name for the type of trade in which goods were passed down a line, changing hands many times before reaching its destination?
Relay trade
Why were transportation costs lower on the Sea Roads than on the Silk Roads?
This animal was introduced into Africa by Arab merchants and greatly facilitated trade?
Arabian camel
True or false: Before 1450, Christian Europe surpassed the Arab/Muslim world in terms of scientific and mathematical learning?
False
What century do we most associate with the Bubonic Plague?
14th century (1300s)
These were the most commonly used animals (for transit) along the Silk Roads?
camel and horse
These were the alternating wind currents that merchants used to determine when they would sail the open oceans?
Monsoon winds
This West African empire monopolized the import of strategic goods such as horses and metals in the 14th century?
Mali
What effect did greater access to currency and credit have on trade in the period 1200-1450?
Facilitated trade
Name two large dynasties that the Mongols conquered.
Abbasid and Song
This religion, indigenous to South Asia, traveled eastwards along the Silk Roads, and soon became the largest religion in China?
Buddhism
This Arab oceangoing vessel was central to commerce of the Sea Roads?
Dhow
This West African city was a terminus of the Sand Road and a center of intellectual and religious learning?
Timbuktu
True or false: It's a good idea to circle an answer choice containing an empire or historical place/name/term that we have not yet studied.
False
This is the term that connotes the particular form of peasant labor in Western Europe, 1200ish-1700ish?
Serf(dom). The Bubonic Plague causes serfdom to decline though it does not disappear for another few centuries.
These were stations established along the Silk Roads that were used by merchants to trade, rest, and restore health?
Caravanserai
This Malay kingdom dominated the crucial chokepoint of the Strait of Malacca from 670 CE to 1025 CE?
Srivijaya
Excessive printing of paper money to pay for military expeditions often led to this economic phenomenon in which the value of money decreases?
Describe the political situation in Western Europe, 1200-1450
Decentralized or fragmented
What affect did the Pax Mongolica have on Silk Routes trade?
In increased because the Mongols helped to connect disparate parts of Eurasia commercially
This term describes the amalgamation of different ideas, cultures, etc.
Syncretism
These civilizations popped up along the East African coast as part of the Indian Ocean trade networks?
Swahili Civilizations
These are the six themes in AP World History?
Social Interactions and Organization
Governance
Humans and the Environment
Cultural Developments & Interactions
Economic Systems
Technology & Innovation
This term describes the dispersion or spread of people from their ancestral homeland, often for economic reasons.
Diaspora
Historians consider this characteristic of the Mongol peoples to be one of the reasons that the empire broke into four Khanates?
Factionalism/tribalism and personal loyalties