Trade Routes
What is the most popular trade route? (Hint: it is going through Asia)
The Silk Road
What was the city of Timbuktu known for?
It was a center of trade and learning
What were the three groups of people?
Maya, Aztec, and Incans
The Battle of Tours
Where was this empire located?
Indian Ocean and in the mountains, Himalayas and Hindu Kush, and near rivers Indus and Ganges
What religion spread from India?
Hinduism
What religion is Axum (the Eastern African Kingdom)
Christian
What happened to both the Aztecs and the Incans?
Spanish conquest
What were the two groups of people after Muhammad's death?
Sunnis and Shias
What was the new civilization made when the Aryans conquered?
What items came from China? (name at least two)
Paper, Compass, Porecelain
What did the Trans-Saharan route trade?
Gold and salt
Where were the Aztects located?
In an arid valley in Central Mexico
What were the names of the two powerful families?
What did the Mauryan people build? (mention at least two)
Roads, hospitals, and Buddhist shrines
What are the three religions that spread?
What were the three rivers/bodies of water close to Zimbabwe?
Zambezi, Limpopo, and Indian Ocean
What were the Mayan people governed by? What about the Aztecs and the Incans?
Mayan people were governed by a king and the other two were governed by an emperor
What architecture was built during the Golden Age?
Dome of the Rock
Who was a very important person to the Mauryans?
Ashoka - buddhist
Name all the major trade routes (there are 6)
Silk Road, Maritime, Trans-Saharan, the route through the Dnieper River, Western European, and South China sea
What were two ideas from West Africa that got spread to other regions?
Animism and Islam
What was an achievement of the Incans? (mention at least two)
Massive road system, Quipu, and Terrace farming
What were some achievements in math and science? (mention three to get points)
What were some contributions because of the Gupta? (mention three to get points)
Astronomy, the number zero, decimals, setting bones, sanskirt