Vocab - Connections And Interactions

Question 1

Silk roads

Answer 1

A network of paths connecting civilizations in the East and west

Question 2

Sea roads

Answer 2

A network of trade on the ocean

Question 3

Srivljaya

Answer 3

A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of malacca between 670 and 1023 CE

Question 4

Angkor Wat

Answer 4

An enormous Buddhist temple complex located in northern Cambodia

Question 5

Swahili civilization

Answer 5

An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century C.E. from a blending of Bantu, Islamic, and other Indian Ocean trade elements

Question 6

Zheng He

Answer 6

Muslim Chinese navigator, diplomat, and explorer who served the Ming dynasty emporers

Question 7

Mali

Answer 7

Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa in 1200s - 1400s

Question 8

Trans Saharan slave trade

Answer 8

a slave trade in which slaves were transported across the Sahara

Question 9

Timbuktu

Answer 9

City on the Niger River in Mali, major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning

Question 10

House of wisdom

Answer 10

Large private library belonging to the Abbasid Caliphs during the Islamic Golden Age

Question 11

American web

Answer 11

The network of trade that linked parts of the pre - Columbian Americas

Question 12

Pochteca

Answer 12

Processional merchants in the Aztec Empire, gained elite status