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Chap13tropasia/afric
Chapter 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| equatorial region between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. It is characterized by generally warm or hot temps year-round, though much variation exists due to altitude and other factors. Temp zones north and south of the tropics have winter seasons | Tropics |
| Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and western Sudan | Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) |
| Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temp btwn the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean waters. These strong an dpredictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea | Monsoons |
| Centralized Indian empire of varying extent, created by Muslim Invaders | Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526) |
| Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the 13 to 15th centuryy. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade | Mali |
| Ruler of Mali (1312-1337). His pilgrimage thru Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Med world | Mansa Kankan Musa |
| Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing; the inhabitants are called Gujarati | Gujarat |
| Ship of small to moderate size used in the western Indian Ocean, traditionally with a triangular sail and a sewn timber hull | Dhow |
| East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River; from the Arabic sawahil, meaning "shores" | Swahili Coast |
| City, now in ruins, whose any stone structures were built btwn about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state | Great Zimbabwe |
| Port city in the modern south Arabian country of Yemen. It has been a major trading center in the Indian Ocean since ancient times | Aden |
| Port city in the modern SE Asian country of Malaysia, founded about 1400 as a trading center on the Strait of Malacca. Also spelled Melaka | Malacca |
| A Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300s | Urdu |
| City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As part of the Mali empire, Timbuktu became a major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning | Timbuktu |
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