What?
A series of European military campaigns in the Middle East between 1095 and the 1200s.
What is the Crusades?
An Italian native who traveled around and provided vivid descriptions of his travels.
Who is Marco Polo?
Period characterized by a revival of interest in Classical Greek and Roman literature, art, and culture.
What is the Renaissance?
Locations for exchanging flying money.
What are banking houses?
City off the west coast of India that became a thriving cent of trade.
Where is Calicut?
The focus on individuals rather than God.
What is humanism?
Muslim admiral who traveled all over the world to display the might of the Ming Dynasty to the rest of the world. Had an impressive fleet.
Who is Zheng He?
Plague introduced to Europe by way of trading routes.
What is the bubonic plague? or What is the Black Death?
Kublai Khan established this dynasty in China in 1215.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
Mongolian army of 100,000 soldiers in Russia.
Who is the Golden Horde?
The Chinese boat quite similar to the dhow.
Muslim Scholar who traveled throughout Central Asia, Southeast Asia, etc. mainly to Muslim lands.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Center of Islamic learning in Spain.
Where is Cordoba?
Zhu Yuanzhang led a revolt to overthrown the Mongolian dynasty in China and founded this dynasty (1368-1644).
What is the Ming Dynasty?
City in West Africa that became a world-renowned center of Islamic learning.
Where is Timbuktu?
The period of Eurasian history between the 13th and 14th centuries is often called this. Meaning Mongolian peace.
What is Pax Mongolia?
Kingdom created by seven states loosely connected through kinship ties in what is now Nigeria.
What is the Hausa kingdom?
Protected the safety of merchants on the Silk Road and Trans-Saharan trade route.
What are caravans?
Great city conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
Kingdom in West Africa that rose to power once the Mali empire declined.
What is the Songhai kingdom?
Technology that allowed for improved transportation in the Indian Ocean trade.
What is the stern rudder, lateen sail, astrolabe, or magnetic compass?
One of the most celebrated Islamic scholars who contributed to astronomy, law, logic, medicine, etc. Laid the groundwork for trigonometry.
Who is Nasir al-Din al-Tusi?
City in China that was the center of culture in southern China.
Where is Hangzhou?
Stopping point on the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean. Center of cultural exchange.
Where is Samarkand?
Muslim city-state that became wealthy by building a navy and by imposing fees on ships that passed through the strait.
Where is Malacca?