Silk Roads
This Chinese financial innovation allowed individuals to be collect a certain sum at a certain place when they presented a paper.
What are bills of exchange?
These seasonal winds enabled maritime trade.
What are monsoons?
This animal made desert trade possible.
What are camels?
This triangular sail allowed ships to stay stable against wind.
Which disease vector spread rapidly among the Silk Roads?
What is the bubonic plague/black death?
This Central Asian city became a major commercial and cultural hub along the Silk Roads.
What is Samarkhand?
This port city in SE Asia controlled a ship trade check point and collected taxes.
What is Malacca?
This empire grew wealthy from gold-salt trade.
What is the Mali Empire?
This Han-era ship was almost 400 feet long and had multiple compartments
What is the junk?
This traveler documented his visits to countries and cities in Dar-al-Islam
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The period in which trade and cultural exchange flourished under the peace and protection of a large empire.
What is Pax Mongolica?
Thriving city states in the East Coast of Africa that adapted to the spread of Islam and became rich from the trade network.
What are Swahili city-states?
World-renowned region in Mali Empire that become a center of Islamic learning
Timbuktu
This innovation allowed riders to mount their camels easier?
What are saddles?
Name the temple in which elements of Hinduism and Buddhism can be observed.
What is the Angkor War?
Secure houses along the Silk Road in which merchants could rest before continuing their journey.
What are caravanserais?
Ming-Era maritime explorer that sought tribute expansion for China
Zheng He
This ruler's visit to Mecca crashed local economies in Egypt.
Mansa Musa
This tool helped determine latitude and had origins in the Mediterranean Sea region.
What is the astrolabe?
Name a Chinese export in the Silk Roads.
What is porcelain, textiles, paper, gunpowder?
Western Indian Rajput kingdom that became a wealthy trade intermediate.
Name two African trade exports.
What is gold, ivory, animal hides, and slaves?
Southwest Asian wooden ship with lateen sails.
What is the dhow?
Italian native traveler that documented visits to China and exploration among the Silk Roads.
Who is Marco Polo?