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100
Because of their ease of transport, high-value goods that were light in weight traveled on this type of route between 1000-1500 CE.
What is a land route?
100
This magnetic invention from China spread to let navigators find their way in the ocean.
What is the compass?
100
Many Chinese pilgrims who adhered to this religion traveled to India in search of the origins of their faith.
What is Buddhism?
100
This European traveler traded in Mongol-dominated lands in the 13th century, and became a favorite of emperor Khubilai Khan.
Who was Marco Polo?
100
This very productive grain from Asia enriched African diets starting in the 11th century CE.
What is rice?
200
This major European trading hub was home to Marco Polo's family.
What is Venice?
200
This triangular sail allowed for much swifter navigation than traditional square sails, quickly spreading throughout much of Eurasia.
What is the lateen sail?
200
These pious Muslims sought to convert people to Islam by emphasizing devotion to Allah rather than a strict following of the law.
Who were the Sufi missionaries?
200
Many African Muslim war captives suffered this fate, fueled by the increased demand for cheap labor across the Eastern Hemisphere.
What is slavery?
200
European crusaders fell in love with the byproduct of this sweet plant, propping them to set up plantations all along the southern Mediterranean.
What is sugarcane?
300
This was the trading capital of the Mali empire.
What is Timbuktu?
300
This sulfur-based powder is used to create combustion which releases a violent explosion.
What is gunpowder?
300
This Italian Catholic missionary served in Mongol-dominated China and became Archbishop of Khanbaliq in 1307.
Who was John of Montecorvino?
300
This Muslim scholar traveled most of the Muslim world, taking positions as qadi for local courts.
Who was Ibn Battuta?
300
Countries who converted to Islam faced the expectation to follow this set of Islamic laws.
What is Shariah?
400
Founded in 1390, this modern-day Malaysian city was the major trading port of the eastern Indian ocean by the end of the fifteenth century.
What is Melaka?
400
This Age of Empires-style weapon was used by Ghengis Khan to hurl gunpowder bombs at cities under siege.
What is the trebuchet?
400
This branch of Christianity survived in Central Asia, apart from both Catholic and Orthodox churches, which considered it a heresy, as it claimed that Christ had two separate natures: divine and human.
What is Nestorianism?
400
This noxious traveler climbed aboard trading ships, carrying infectious diseases that wiped much of the Eurasian population in the 1300s.
What are rats?
400
These people played a large role in spreading out gunpowder technology, which they learned about from Chinese military engineers.
Who are the Mongols?
500
By unifying the lands connecting Europe and East Asia, the Mongols drastically reduced the threat of this crime against merchants (hint: starts with a "b").
What is banditry?
500
This gunpowder weapon evolved in Europe since the 14th century, and would later become its most destructive weapon of artilliery.
What is the cannon?
500
In 1295, Ghazan, ilkhan of Persia, converted to this religion.
What is Islam?
500
This Nestorial Christian priest was sent by the ilkhan of Persia in 1287 to be an ambassador to the Pope and propose an alliance to take over the Holy Land.
Who was Rabban Sauma?
500
This board game came from India to Muslim countries, making its way to Europe in the Middle Ages.
What is chess?