Indian Ocean Trade
Documents were placed in the "geniza" if they contained the word God on them. What religion was this true of?
What is Judaism?
Name the animal that was well suited to travel over the Silk roads due to the humps on its back, its long eyelashes and sealable nostrils and the two broad toes on its feet. (Also important on the Trans-Saharan route).
What is a camel? Specifically a Bactrian camel in Asia.
BONUS: Name one of the two deserts that the Silk Roads cross in China.
Name the traveler who went with his entourage from Timbuktu to Mecca, stopping in Cairo along the way, and creating long lasting inflation due to the amount of gold spent.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Name the European traveler who travels both the Silk roads and the Indian Ocean routes, spending almost 20 years in China when Kublai Khan is in power.
Who is Marco Polo?
What is Pax Mongolica?
Name the Pope who was concerned about the threat Muslims posed to the Holy Land and the Byzantine empire.
Who is Pope Urban II?
Name the carrier (s) of the Black Death that ravaged much of Afro-Eurasia from 1346-1350.
Who is fleas and rats?
Name the set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
What is Feudalism?
Name two challenges along the Indian Ocean route.
What is pirates and monsoon winds?
Name TWO major religions that spread along the Silk Routes.
What is Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity (Nestorian)?
Name the two main products traded on the Trans-Saharan routes.
What is salt and gold?
Name an Italian city-state that was central to trade in this region (and is known for its canals).
Where is Venice?
Name an invention that the Mongols developed as part of their horse culture, allowing them to sleep, eat, and do battle astride their steeds.
What is stirrups?
List three things and/or ideas that European crusaders took back to Europe from the Middle East.
What is glass making, forks, chivalry, tournaments, mattresses, mirrors, cotton cloth, spices, pasta/ duram wheat, carpets, and shawls, writing paper (to translate Muslim medicine books), wheelbarrows, foods like sugar, spices, dates, coffee, rice and apricots, chess, mathematical knowledge, irrigation methods, words such as .... ?
What is Trade Routes?
Cities such as Angkor Wat, Cairo, Tenochtitlan, Constantinople, Baghdad, Hangzhou, Paris, and Venice could all be described as ___________since they were centers of arts, culture, and diverse foods, attracting immigrants from all over.
What is Cosmopolitan?
The Arab invention that was similar to the compass.
What is an astrolabe?
Name three goods (not ideas or germs) transported from China to Europe along the Silk Roads.
What is silk, porcelain, and tea?
BONUS:
Name three technologies.
The Rihla describes this traveler's extensive travels covering some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) in trips to almost all of the Muslim countries and as far as China and Sumatra (now part of Indonesia).
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Venetian and Genoan traders became wealthy trading with cities such as ____________, the center of the Byzantine empire.
Where is Constantinople?
Name three regions of Eurasia that the Mongols conquered.
Where is Persia, Russia and China?
Much of the Iberian peninsula was occupied by Muslims for 800 years. The process by which the Christians took it over was called the ______________.
What is the Reconquista?
BONUS: Name the place in Cordoba Spain that was a mosque and the church then was built over and around it?
Name the group of people that were targeted as scapegoats, being falsely accused of poisoning wells and blamed for the spread of the Plague across Europe.
Who is the Jews?
Name a naval technological development present in either the Mediterranean or Indian Ocean?
What is dhows from East Africa, lug and lateen sails in the Indian Ocean (Malay), or Zheng He's huge treasure ships or galleys in the Mediterrean (caravels and galleons were at the end of this time period) ?
Name the type of currency used in the Indian Ocean route, particularly along the coast of Africa.
What are cowrie shells?
Actually a question about the Indian Ocean trade... Sorry!
Name the traveler who took seven voyages across the Indian Ocean, peaceful diplomatic missions where other countries paid tribute to China.
Who is Zheng He?
Name the empire that Mansa Musa ruled, one that would be succeeded by the Songhai empire, and then the Ghana empire.
Where is Mali?
Name a commodity that European traders wanted from Asia traders to help with food preservation, hygiene and taste.
What is spices?
Name one way that the Mongols encouraged international exchange.
What is Genetic legacy; the promotion of international commerce and trade; Expanded diplomatic relationships throughout Eurasia; Exchange of people and cultures through forced transfer of craftsmen and educated people from homelands to distant parts; Encouraged spread of religions (Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism) through religious tolerance; Exchange of Chinese technology and art (painting, printing, gunpowder weapons, compass navigation, high temp furnaces, medical techniques; Islamic ideas of astronomy go East via Mongols; and Foods such as lemons and carrots from Middle East for example.
The fourth crusade was known as an unholy crusade Why?
What is the attacks on the Byzantine empire (fellow Christians)?
Name the place where the Black Death originated.
Where is China from which it spread along the Silk Roads to India and the Middle East and then Europe and East Africa.
Name the process that would later allow westernization to occur, including the spread of many goods across Asia and the Indian Ocean to Europe.
What is Southernization?
The type of drought resistant rice that went from Vietnam up along the Grand Canal, resulting in the doubling of rice production in China.
What is Champa Rice?
Name one technology that passed from China to the Abbasids as a result of the Battle of Talas?
What is magnetic compass, wood block printing, silk weaving, ceramics, white porcelain and paper making?
What is a caravanserai?
In Europe, as part of the Commercial Revolution, banking institutions were set up to serve international traders and trade was controlled by associations of artisans and merchants called ____________.
What is guilds?
The name of the dynasty in China when the Mongols ruled.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
Describe three ways in which the Crusades caused a social revolution.
What is the development of European literature, chivalry, warfare, sanitation, commerce, political institutions, medicine, and even the papacy itself? (Specific examples...)
Name the percentage of people who did throughout Afro-Eurasia as a result of the spread of the Black Death.
What is 1/3?
Name one long term consequence of the Black Death.
What is long term consequences included:Workers in Demand; Wages increased; Increase in income and standard of living for lower classes; Increased bargaining power for serfs; Increased consumption of protein (sheep easier for landlords to raise than crops); Peasants and daughters acquired more land; Increased materialism (no longer social status); Leaders of society were discredited (medical, intellectual, political and religious); Increasingly secular (in the arts and in life); and Increased violence and lawlessness.