Mongol Empire & Pax Mongolica
This period refers to peace and stability under Mongol rule that made travel and trade safer.
What is Pax Mongolica
The Silk Roads connected East Asia, Central Asia, and this region.
What is Europe?
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai became wealthy mainly by controlling this trade.
What is trans Saharan trade?
The existence of mosques in West Africa best shows the spread of this religion.
What is Islam?
Historians check the authenticity of sources in order to determine this.
What is usefulness and reliability?
One important impact of Pax Mongolica was that it increased this across Afro Eurasia.
What is cultural diffusion and trade?
Besides goods, these also spread along the Silk Roads.
What are religions, ideas, and technologies?
The wealth of Mali depended on controlling the trade of these two goods.
What are gold and salt?
From 600 to 1500, Islam spread mainly through this and trade.
What is conquest and cultural contact?
The Black Death spread to Europe mainly because of this historical factor.
What is increased interaction and trade with Asia?
Which Mongol policy helped people of many cultures support Mongol rule?
What is religious tolerance?
Gunpowder, paper, and the magnetic compass spread through this network.
What are the Silk Roads?
Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage led to the spread of this in Mali.
What is Islamic learning and culture?
The Mandate of Heaven and reverence for ancestors are associated with this civilization.
What is China?
Which continent came under the greatest Mongol control?
What is Asia?
Marco Polo’s journeys were made possible largely because of this Mongol achievement.
What is protection of trade routes and safe travel?
Trade routes helped spread religions mainly through this historical process.
What is cultural diffusion?
This innovation made long distance Saharan trade possible.
What are camel caravans?
Confucianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism all originated in this region.
What is South Asia?
These seasonal winds directly affected the timing and direction of Indian Ocean trade.
What are monsoons?
According to Mongol values described in The Secret History of the Mongols, relationships were built on this core principle.
What is loyalty ties?
One major long term effect of Silk Road trade was the connection between these two major regions.
What are East Asia and Eastern Europe?
According to Ibn Battuta’s account, West African trade caravans allowed the exchange of metals for this type of good.
What are luxury items and food products?
One major way religions influenced political unity from 500 to 1500 was by doing this.
What is uniting societies under religious laws?
A major result of Indian Ocean trade along East Africa’s coast was the development of this culture and language.
What is Swahili culture and language?