The Black Death
These animals spread the plague across Asia and Europe.
What are rats?
The invention of this made traveling the Silk Road safer.
What are caravans?
Islam was created by this "prophet."
Who is Muhammad?
This individual is primarily responsible for starting the Crusades in 1096.
Who is the Pope (Pope Urban II)?
The founder of the Mongol empire.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This group became more powerful due to the massive number of deaths.
Who are the peasants?
The main route of the Silk Road stretched from China in the east to this empire in the west.
What is Rome?
The sacred text of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
Control of this site was the primary goal of the Crusades.
What is Jerusalem?
Genghis Khan was successful because he was able to do what for the Mongolian people?
What is unify the Mongol tribes?
In some parts of Europe, such as Barcelona, nobility replaced peasant labor with this type of labor.
What is slave labor?
This philosophy, which guides the follower to strive for Nirvana, spread far along the Silk Road.
What is Buddhism?
This common language helped unite the Caliphates.
What is Arabic?
Other than Muslims and Christians, this other religious group was often a target for violence by armies of the Crusades.
Who are Jews?
Mongol innovations allowed them to do this quickly over long distances.
What is communicate?
This group of people is rumored to have used plague victims for biological warfare.
Who are the Mongols?
This animal was an important trade good in Marakanda.
What is the horse?
The name for Muslim law.
What is Sharia?
The total number of Crusades to the Holy Land.
What is 8?
(7 is also acceptable - the last 2 are sometimes grouped as 1)
The religious expectation after a village was conquered by Mongols.
What is religious freedom?
The plague was more deadly in large European cities for this reason.
What are cities were heavily populated, dirty, and rodent-infested?
This mineral, common today, was traded for gold in Mali and then north along routes of the Silk Road.
What is salt?
The Muslim religion split into these two groups shortly after the death of Muhammad.
What are Shia and Sunni?
Ideas European Crusaders brought back from the Islamic Caliphates.
What is:
-knowledge of plants, irrigation, animal breeding?
-goods: lemons, apricots, sugar, silk, cotton, spices
- castle design
- medical knowledge
- algebra & number systems
The reason Mongol Empire divided after 1259.
What is civil war after the death of Mongke Khan?