Chill Chinese Dynasties
Dangerous Black Death
Trans-Saharan & Indian Ocean Trade
Murderous & Magnificent Mongols
Crucial Cultural Exchange
100
What is the name of the Mongol Dynasty which lasted from 1271-1368?
Yuan Dynasty
100
What was the estimated death toll in Europe for the Black death?
100 million.
100
What religion was the most influential for Berber Pastoralists and along the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes?
Islam
100
What term describes a relative era of peace during which trade flourished in Afro-Eurasia as the result of Mongols ensuring safety on trade routes?
Pax Mongolica.
100
What term means the process of cultures and religions becoming more similar with each other or syncing?
What term means the process of cultures and religions becoming more similar with each other or syncing?
Syncretism
200
Describe at least 3 Chinese inventions during Song/Yuan dynasty China.
Gunpowder, Magnetic Compass, Magnifying Glass, Silk Making, Civil service exams (so people could fairly enter the government), etc.
200
1) Where was the Black Death originally found?
2) What animals helped spread it?
1) Central Asia
2) Rats/Gerbils
200
This force helped propel the Indian Ocean trade, making it possible for people to traverse the ocean in record time depending on the season.
Monsoon winds.
200
Name at least two places in Afro-Eurasia that were never conquered by the Mongols.
Delhi Sultanate, Japan, most of Europe, etc.
(They notably conquered the Abbasids, the Chinese (Yuan Dynasty), Central Asia, etc.
200
Name the two religions that were influential in the syncretism of the building of the temple at Angkor Wat located in what is now Cambodia. 
Buddhism & Hinduism. (the temple was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, but was later taken over by Buddhists). 
300
Describe Zheng He's voyages and treasure ships:
1) when did he travel? (what dynasty?)
2) where did he go?
3) what religion did he believe in?
1) He traveled in the early 1400s (the Ming Dynasty!)
2) He went to largely Muslim cities along the Indian Ocean coast
3) He was Muslim.
300
Explain how Mongols were involved in the spread of the Black Death.
Because of the "Pax Mongolica" there was more widespread trade along Afro-Eurasia, which allowed the spread of the disease to take place.
300
This language flourished on the Eastern Coast of Africa during the Indian Ocean trade, and was used to expand state development.
Swahili.
300
Describe Mongol attitudes toward religion: what did they do to the people that they conquered?
Mongols were religiously tolerant, allowing people to keep their indigenous religions.
(all the while believing in their own religion in which they worshiped a sky god, and had shamans).
300
This type of Islam developed in South East Asia, incorporates elements of Hinduism, and is an example of syncretism.
Sufi Islam
400
Chinese ships during the Song/Yuan dynasties were called junks; what were the fleet of boats that Zheng He used called?
Zheng He used treasure ships to sail the Indian Ocean to Muslim cities. 
400
Explain why the Black Death hit Europe the hardest.
Because Europe had crowded and unsanitary cities, and because people in Asia had a little bit more natural immunity to it.
400
Name at least three goods that were important for trade in the Mali & Songhai empires.
Gold, salt, enslaved people, ivory, etc.
400
The Mongols facilitated exchange between Afro-Eurasia, but specifically between these two areas, which were at the pinnacle of innovation.
Dar-Al-Islam & Yuan/Song Dynasty China
400
Despite these popularity of Islam in Africa during 1200-1450, these two countries notably still had a large Christian population.
Egypt & Ethiopia.
500
1) Name all three Chinese dynasties from the time period 1200-1450, in order.
Song (Silkworms), Yuan (Mongols), Ming (Zheng He)
500
Describe at least 4 effects of the Black Death on European society afterwards.
1) decline of feudal structure (not enough people)
2) Rise in wages (because workers could ask for more)
3) creation of a middle class
4) European renaissance
5) new farming technologies that were less reliant on manpower
6) more domesticated animals doing work
500
Describe at least reasons why Trans-Saharan trade was able to increase from 1200-1450.
1) domestication of camels
2) wealth of Mali/Songhai empires
3) alliance between empires & mercenaries which used to attack them
4) wealth of Islamic merchants
5) new stops (caravanserai)
500
Describe at least 5 inventions that were spread by the Mongols, and where they came from.
Gunpowder = China
Magnetic Compass = China
Magnifying Glass = China
Champa Rice Farming = China
Algebra = Dar-Al-Islam Islam
Astronomy = Dar-Al-Islam
500
Name at least 4 global travelers during this period of time, where they were from, and where they went.
Ibn Battuta — from Morocco, traveled Dar-Al-Islam
Marco Polo — from Italy, went to China (Silk Road)
Friar Odoric — from Italy, went to China & Persia
Rabban Sawma & Rabban Markos — from China, went to Jerusalem
Margery Kempe — from England, went to Jerusalemm