Many ideas, skills, and __________ traveled the Silk Road along with the traders and trade good.
Customs
100
The Chinese had gained great wealth because they had learned to weave _________ cloth.
Silk
100
What was the earliest kingdom formed in the West Africa?
Ghana
100
What is the name of a journey that is taken for religious reasons?
Pilgrimage
100
Ghana was rich with minerals but they lacked what important resource?
Salt
200
What is the name of a person who is the ruler of an empire?
Emperor
200
What Chinese invention made it possible for the sailors to determine their direction far out at sea?
Magnetic Compass
200
The followers of Islam are known as _________?
Muslims
200
What do we call a group of traders traveling together, who for centuries, traveled the Sahara Desert on camelback, bringing goods to and from West Africa?
Caravan
200
What is the name of the instrument that helped sailors use the sun and the stars to find their location in latitude and their distance from the equator?
Astrolabe
300
The Polos were _____________ whose goal was to bring back valuable trade goods from China.
Merchants
300
What is the name of the boy that was only 17 when he set ouf on his great adventure to China with his father and uncle?
Marco Polo
300
What is the name of the religion that the Arab traders brought with them to West Africa?
Islam
300
Mali reached its peak as an empire in the early 1300's during the rule of ________ _________ who was known for his immense wealth.
Mansa Musa
300
What is the name of the city in the Arabian peninsula that is holy to Muslims?
Mecca
400
Who was the commander of the Chinese Naval fleet that set sail in 1405?
Zheng He
400
In about 1400, China began to build an enormous ___________ fleet.
Naval
400
What is the name of the traders from North Africa the brought salt, to exchange for gold, from the Sahara to cities on the southern edge of Timbuktu?
Arab traders
400
What is the name of the trading kingdom that rose in West Africa and controlled more land than both Ghana and Mali?
Songhai
400
Which kingdom controlled more land than Ghana, and like Ghana owed its wealth to trade?
Mali
500
What was the major trade route between China and other lands that was a network of routes known as?
Silk Road
500
The Chinese Fleet reached such far off lands as the spice rich East Indies, India, the Persian Empire, Arabia, and the ______ ______.
Red Sea
500
Many scholars and artists settled in timbuktu, this city which had long been a center of trade has also became a center of ___________?
Learning
500
In addition to caravan traders, European ships from what three places brought cloth, horses and other goods to North Africa?
Spain
Portugal
Italy
500
With the astrolabe and other new tools and ideas, different parts of the world were becoming closely ___________.