Silk Roads
What was the main transportation on the Silk Roads?
Camal
Who was the leader of the Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan
Where did Mansa Musa make a pilgrimage to?
Meca
The name of the trade that occurred in the Indian ocean basin.
What animal was used by Muslim merchants in the Sahara?
What are Camels?
What are the inns that were created along the silk road?
What were Caravanserai.
How did the Mongols acquire siege weapons?
They captured Chinese and Persian engineered
The empire that conquered Constantinople.
Who are the Ottomans?
The islands in the Indian Ocean Trade that traded primarily spices.
What are the Spice Islands?
The innovation that made camel travel much more efficient
What are camel saddles?
Rest stops for traders in the Arabian desert where human settlement was possible due to water underground.
What are oases?
The period of peace created after the Mongol's domination of Eurasia
What is the Pax Mongolica?
What are the places where traders settled down with the locals and curated a sub culture in the area?
Diasporic Communities
The natural occurrence did sailors have to plan their adventures around.
What are monsoon winds?
Why were the lateen sails popular.
Because sailors found that the triangle could easily catch winds coming from many different directions.
The main category of items that was traded on the Silk Roads.
What are luxury goods?
Whose army was known as the Golden Horde?
Who is Batu?
The two other ideas included in Neo Confucianism
What is Daoism and Buddhism?
What item invented during the Han Dynasty changed ocean navigation?
Compass
What was the system of credit that allowed people to deposit paper money and withdrawal it in a different place?
Flying cash
The two cities on the Silk Roads that harbored centers of Islamic scholarship, bustling markets, and sources for fresh water and plentiful food for merchants.
What is Samarkand and Kashgar?
Name three of the four Khanates after the breakup of the Mongol Empire
Possible answers:
Batu Kipchak Empire / Golden Horde
Ilkhan Empire
Empire of the Chaghatai Khanate
Yuan Dynasty / Empire of the Great Khans
The Muslim scholar from Morocco that went on adventures throughout the Islamic world; he also wrote a book.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The Ming emporer that sent out Zheng He for the seven great voyages.
Who is Emporer Yongle?
what advantage did the astrolabe give sailors.
what is allowing sailors to determine how far north or south they are from the equator.