Trade Routes
This network of ancient trade routes connected the East and West, facilitating cultural exchange and commerce.
What are the Silk Roads?
The founder of Islam and the final prophet in the Islamic faith.
Who is Muhammad?
This first West African empire dominated the region's gold and salt trade due to its strategic location.
What was the Ghana Empire?
These successors of Muhammad served as political and religious leaders in the Islamic world.
Who were Caliphs/Caliphates?
This city served as the capital of the Ottoman Empire and was known as Constantinople before its conquest.
What is Istanbul?
This European explorer traveled along the Silk Road to China and served in the court of the Chinese Emperor Kubli Khan.
Who is Marco Polo?
Almsgiving, fasting during Ramadan, prayer 5 times a day, declaration of faith and the Hajj.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
This famous emperor of the Mali Empire is known for his extravagant pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This division within Islam arose over the issue of leadership following the death of Prophet Muhammad and led to a split in the Muslim community.
What is Shi'a and Sunni Islam?
Millet System.
What was the system of religious communities allowing non-Muslims to maintain their own laws and practices within the Ottoman Empire?
This maritime trade network connected the lands surrounding the formerly Roman held territories.
What is the Mediterranean Sea Complex?
This term refers to Jews and Christians to Muslims.
Who are "people of the Book"?
This legendary city was a center of learning and trade in the Mali Empire.
What is Timbuctoo?
Jizya.
What is the tax non-Muslims had to pay?
These reforms aimed to modernize the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century in government and education.
What were the Tanzimat Reforms?
This trade route, whose main goods were salt and gold, connected West Africa to the Mediterranean and Middle East.
What was the Trans-Saharan trade network?
What is the religious pilgrimage to Mecca?
This Moroccan scholar and explorer traveled extensively across the Islamic world, including West Africa.
Ibn Battuta.
This Islamic caliphate, whose focus was military and luxury, moved the capital to Damascus and expanded into North Africa and Europe.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
Janissaries.
Who were the Christian children taken as tax, converted to Islam and trained from youth to be an elite soldier class in the Ottoman Empire?
These structures provided shelter, security, and services for travelers along trade routes.
What were Caravanserai?
The holy book of Islam, believed to be the word of God as revealed to Muhammad.
What is the Quran?
Gold, salt and slaves.
What were the main trade goods among the West African Empires?
This Islamic caliphate, known for its cultural and scientific achievements, established Baghdad as its capital and reached its height during the Golden Age.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
Gunpowder empire.
What was the Ottoman's role using gunpowder in a new way, changing conquest and war forever?