Silk roads and trade
This trade route connected China to the Middle East and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This empire controlled much of the Middle East and spread Islam.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This religion began in India and focuses on the Four Noble Truths.
What is Buddhism?
This Chinese invention revolutionized warfare.
What is gunpowder?
This system organized Japanese society around warriors and landowners.
What is feudalism?
This dynasty greatly expanded trade and protected the Silk Roads.
What is the Mongol Empire/Yuan Dynasty?
This African empire became wealthy from gold and salt trade.
What is Mali?
This religion spread rapidly through trade in Dar al-Islam.
What is Islam?
This crop from Southeast Asia increased China’s population growth.
This Chinese belief system stressed hierarchy and family loyalty.
What is Confucianism?
This disease spread through Afro-Eurasian trade networks in the 1300s.
What is the Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
This Chinese system used exams to select government officials.
What is the civil service examination system?
This philosophy emphasized respect for elders and social order in China.
What is Confucianism?
This House in Baghdad became a center of learning and translation.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This term describes the exchange of goods, culture, and disease across regions.
What is cultural diffusion?
This technology from China improved navigation and trade.
What is the compass?
This ruler of Mali became famous for his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This branch of Christianity dominated Eastern Europe and Byzantium.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
This architectural feature became common in Islamic mosques.
What is a dome/minaret/arch?
This city became the center of the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Rome.
What is Constantinople?
This merchant traveler wrote detailed accounts of Asia after serving the Mongols.
Who is Marco Polo?
This empire united the largest contiguous land empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This syncretic religion blended Islam with local African traditions.
What is a syncretic African-Islamic belief system?
This innovation allowed the Mongols to communicate quickly across their empire.
What is the Yam system (relay communication network)?
This massive trading network connected the Middle East, East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia through maritime trade.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?