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Unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the primary regions for the silk roads? | East Asia to Mediterranean (across Eurasia) |
| What were the primary regions for the Indian Ocean Trade? | East Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia |
| What were the primary regions for the Trans Saharan trade? | North Africa, Sub-Saharan West Africa |
| What were the primary and luxury goods for the Silk Road? | Silk, porcelain, spices, jade, textiles |
| What were the primary, Bulk and luxury goods for the Indian Ocean Trade? | Spices, cotton, ivory, gold, timber, porcelain |
| What were the primary and high-value staples goods for the Trans-Saharan Routes? | Gold, salt, slaves, kola, nuts |
| What was the key transport for the silk roads? | Camels, horses, caravan pack animals |
| What was the key transport for the Indian Ocean Trade? | Junks, dhows, seasonal, monsoon winds |
| What was the key transport for the Trans-Saharan Routes? | Camels caravans, camel saddles |
| What were the key technologies used in the silk roads? | Caravanserai, paper money, credit (flying cash), astrolabe |
| What were the key technologies used in the Indian Ocean Trade? | Compass, sternpost, rudder, lateen sail, astrolabe |
| What were the key technologies used in the Trans-Saharan Routes? | Camels saddle, caravenserais |
| What were Prominent Cities during the silk roads? | Samarkand, Kashgar |
| What were Prominent Cities during the Trans-Saharan Routes? | Timbuktu, Gao, Djenne |
| What did Genghis Khan (Temujin) do? | Unified nomadic pastoral tribes in 1206 using military speed, horsemanship, adaptable tactics, and psychological warfare |
| What was Pax Mongolica? | A period of relative peace across Eurasia during Mongol rule (13th-14th centuries) |
| What were Khanates? | 4 key regions that Genghis Khan created |
| What was the Yuan Dynasty (China)? | Established by Kublai Khan; replaced the Song Dynasty; adapted Chinese bureaucracy but kept top posts for mongols/foreigners |
| What was the IIkhanate (Persia/Middle East)? | Conquered Baghdad in 1258 (ending the Abbasid Caliphate); many rulers converted to Islam |
| What was the Golden Horde (Russia)? | Ruled Russia indirectly via tribute-paying princes (Moscow grew in power as tax collector) |
| What was the Chagatai Khanate? | Controlled Central Asian Trade routes |
| What was Trade Security? | Standardized travel routes and protected merchants along the silk roads, skyrocketing cross-continental trade |
| What was Cultural Diffusion? | Facilitated the spread of gunpowder, printing technology, and medical knowledge from East Asia to Western Eurasia |
| What was Biological Impact? | Unintentionally facilitated that rapid spread of the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) along trade corridors |
| Where did Buddhism spread? | Spread to East and Southeast Asia via Silk Roads and Indian Ocean routes; syncretized into Mahayana and Neo-Confucianism |
| Where did Islam spread? | Expanded into West Africa (via Trans-Saharan trade), East Africa (Swahili Coast), and South/Southeast Asia (via Indian Ocean merchants) |
| Where did Hinduism spread? | Spread across Maritime Southeast Asia (e.g., Majapahit Empire, Angkor Wat) |
| Who was Ibn Battuta? | A Moroccan Islamic scholar who traveled 73,000+ miles across the Dar al-islam; highlighted cultural variations in Islamic practice |
| Who was Marco Polo? | A Venetian merchant who served in Kublai Khan's court; generated European fascination with East Asian wealth and technology |
| Who was Margery Kempe? | An English mystic who recorded her pilgrimages across Europe and the Holy Land, offering rare insights into medieval women's lives |
| What is Champa Rice? | A Fast-ripening, drought-resistant rice form Vietnam to China population boom |
| Where were bananas introduced? | Introduced to Sub-Saharan Africa for Southeast Asia dietary shift, expanded inland populations |
| Where did Sugar and Citrus spread? | Spread throughout the Mediterranean and Islamic world via trade connections |
| What was the black death? | A plague that decimated up to 30%-60% of Eurasia's population, Spread along Mongol-secured trade routes and merchant ships and weakened feudalism and shifting power toward wage-earning peasants |
| Did the mongols kill a large number of Chinese? | No, They did not kill a large number of Chinese when taking over |
| What did the mongols do with china? | They unified a diverse china |
| Who became Emperor during mongol rule? | Khubilai Khan |
| Why didn't the mongols adopt Chinese beliefs? | No intermarriages and they couldn't learn Mongol scripts (Chinese) |
| What did Persia and China have in common with the mongols? | The devastating share of humiliating defeat, The mongols used their established government and women had more rights. |
| How many people were killed in Persia? | 200,000+ people were killed |
| Why did farmers get kicked off their land in Persia? | So that mongols could be allowed for order grazing |
| Why did many Mongols convert to Islam? | So that they could follow Ghazan |
| Who learned Persian? | The Mongols |
| What did the mongols do in Persia? | They intermarried and became farmers |
| What harsh methods were the mongols doing? | They taxed heavily and used torture |
| What is the claim statement about the mongols? | They took over Eurasian empires and it represented an enormous cultural encounter |
| What is Diaspora? | Settlements of people away from their homeland arising from trade |
| What are the Swahili-city states? | Calicut, Malacca and Kilwa |
| What was Samarkand? | It was a stopping point on the silk roads between China and Mediterranean |
| What was kashgar? | A trading city located at the western edge of China where northern and southern routes of the silk roads crossed |
| What was a secular? | Non religious matters, worldly affairs, or physical items distinct from spiritual concerns |
| Who was Zheng He? | A Muslim admiral, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of 7 great voyages that took his many ships through the Indian Ocean, from southeast Asia to Africa |
| What was the Yuan Dynasty? | Established by Kublai Khan in 1271 and was tolerant towards various religious groups in china |
| What was the Sultanate of Malacca? | A powerful Islamic kingdom which reached its peak in the mid-1400s |
| What is Sufism? | A mystical religion or belief where you try and connect to God |
| What was the Mali Empire? | West African empire from 1235-1400 with trading cities Timbuktu and Gao |
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