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Honors vocab 2.5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| black death | a plague introduced to Europe through trading routes |
| marco polo | an Italian explorer from Venice who visited China and was impressed with it |
| ibn battuta | a Muslim scholar from Morocco who set out to explore the world he read about |
| magery kempe | English mystic she wrote one of the earliest autobiographies in English |
| swahili | a language that blends Bantu and Arabic and is still widely spoken today |
| urdu | a Persian language that had influences from Sanskrit-based Hindi as well as Arabic and Farsi |
| lateen sails | (maybe invented by Arab sailors) s triangular sail that could easily catch winds coming from many different directions |
| stern rudder | invented by Chinese sailors it gave their ships more stability and made them easier to maneuver |
| astrolabe | improved by Muslim navigators allowed them to determine how far north or south they were from the equator |
| magnetic compass | developed by Chinese scientists, helped aid navigation and ship control along the seas |
| hangzhou | Chinese city described in Marco polo's writing trade expanded it, it was large, but other China cities were bigger |
| samarkand | in present day uzbekisan along zervashan river valley flourished because of trade along the silk roads |
| kashgar | city located at the western edge of China trade along the silk roads made it flourish |
| constantinople | a once thriving city that was heavily walled in present day turkey it suffered many traumatic setbacks |
| syncretism | blending of diverse cultures |
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