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2.5 vocab

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black death the plague. spread through trade. millions died. economy declined.
marco polo Italian explorer. travelled to China to find new culture and ideas to bring back to Europe.
ibn battuta Muslim scholar form Morrocco. explorer, writer.
margery kempe English mystic. wrote one of the earliest autobiographies in English.
swahili language is a blend of Arabic and Bantu and is still widely spoken today.
urdu language with Arabic, Farsi, India, Korea.
lateen sails used by sailors and were popular because they could easily catch winds coming from many directions.
stern rudder invented by Chinese sailors, gave their ships more stability and made them easier to maneuver.
Astrolabe improved by Muslim innovators in the 12th century, allowed sailors to determine how far north or south they were from the equator.
Magnetic Compass used to find the facing direction.
Hangzhou China city, large, but not the largest. Center of culture in Southern China, center of trade too.
Samarkand located in present day Uzbekistan stopping point on the Silk Roads between China and the Middle East.
Kashgar Located at the Western edge of China where Northern and Southern routes of the Silk Roads crossed.
Constantinople Present-day Turkey. Bubonic plague killed half of the people. Army weakened after attack in the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
Syncretism Blending of multiple religions.
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