Trade Routes
What trade route was famous for trading Chinese Silk?
Silk Road.
Which leader from one of the northern African kingdom is known as the richest man ever?
Mansa Musa.
Mayans, Incans, and the Aztecs.
What are the two types of Islam you can be?
Sunni and Shia.
What were the two famous family dynasties of the Indian empire?
Mauryan and Gupta.
How many major trade routes were there?
Six
Which African empire was christian?
Axum.
Which of the civilizations were polytheistic?
The Mayans, the Aztecs, and the Incans!
Which type of Islam believed that the ruler of the Islamic empire should be blood related to Muhammad?
Shia.
Which two rivers provided water and fertile soil to the Indian empire.
The Indus and the Ganges rivers.
What is the name of the trade route that went across the seas and lands of south-east Asia?
South China
What city was the center of learning and trade in Africa?
Timbuktu.
Which two civilizations were ruled by emperors?
The Aztecs and the Incans.
The Umayyads.
What two mountains were able to protect the Indian empire from invaders?
The Hindu Kush and the Himalayan mountain ranges.
What trade route was along the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Maritime.
Which African civilization mysteriously dissappeared?
Zimbabwe.
Which empire was represented by Chichen Itza?
What is the famous battle that Muslims were defeated at? This battle stopped the Muslims from spreading into France.
The Battle of Tours.
What major weather event brought rain to the Indian Empire every summer?
Monsoons.
What two trade routes spread their religion along with goods/
Silk Road and the Trans-Saharan routes across north Africa.
What two rivers was the Zimbabwe empire relatively close to?
Which civilization invented Quipu?
The Incans.
What famous event marked the end of the Islamic golden age?
The fall of the Baghdad empire to the Mongols.
What were the two main cities of the Indus civilization?
Harappa and Monhenjo-Daro.