Unit 2 (1200-1450)

Question 1

Silk Roads

Answer 1

Traded mainly luxury items like porcelain, silk, and spices; connected Asia/Europe

Question 2

Outer vs. Inner Asia

Answer 2

Outer Asia had warmer weather and sold agriculture/manufactured goods while Inner Asia was colder and therefore traded furs, livestock, wool, and amber

Question 3

Bills of Exchange

Answer 3

Loans; travellers could take one out at one banking house and exchange it at another for banking

Question 4

Caravanserais

Answer 4

Inns where merchants could rest and exchange their animals such as camels, which were used because they could go farther without water (led to new camel saddles to carry more)

Question 5

Kashgar

Answer 5

A city between an intersection of trade routes were merchants traded and resupplied

Question 6

Samarkand

Answer 6

A center of cultural exchange between Christianity, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism

Question 7

Genghis Khan

Answer 7

A leader of the Mongols that united tribes and used siege warfare to conquer more land. The Mongols protected trade routes and promoted religious tolerance

Question 8

Pax Mongolica

Answer 8

“Mongol Peace”; a period of time that spread technology (paper making/gunpowder), culture, and disease (bubonic plague) across Eurasia

Question 9

What caused Europeans to search for a sea-based trade route to Asia?

Answer 9

The disruption of Mongol trade routes and a desire to avoid Muslim controlled land

Question 10

Lateen Sails

Answer 10

Triangular-shaped sails that allowed sailors to catch wind on either sides

Question 11

Chinese Junk

Answer 11

A larger ship was a big hull to carry more cargo

Question 12

Monsoon Winds

Answer 12

Knowledge of the environment that allowed sailors to predict which way the wind was blowing depending on the season

Question 13

Astrolabe

Answer 13

A device that uses the stars to help one find their location

Question 14

Stern Rudders

Answer 14

Technology that gave ships greater mobility

Question 15

Malacca

Answer 15

A Muslim city state that grew wealthy by building a navy and taxing trade

Question 16

Diasporic Communities

Answer 16

Small ethnic populations in a foreign land

Question 17

Indianization

Answer 17

The spread of Indian culture/Hinduism to SE Asia through trade

Question 18

Zheng He

Answer 18

A Chinese voyager who traveled around the Indian Ocean for the Chinese king to demonstrate their power and collect tributes. He brought back foreign animals like giraffes, increasing Chinese interest in the rest of the world

Question 19

North v. Saharan Africa

Answer 19

North Africa trade clothe, glassware, and weapons while Saharan Afr. traded salt, copper, and gold

Question 20

Mali

Answer 20

Ruled by Sundiata who established good trade relations through shared religion and taxed the gold trade to grow wealthy

Question 21

Mansa Musa

Answer 21

A relative of Sundiata and kind of Mali who took a pilgrimage to Mecca, on the way sharing his wealth and using it to build mosques and schools

Question 22

Khmer Empire

Answer 22

Most successful SE Asian kingdom because it adopted Hinduism and Buddhism

Question 23

Marco Polo

Answer 23

An Italian merchant who wrote about his time in the courts of Kublai Khan in China which increased European interest in Asia

Question 24

Ibn Battuta

Answer 24

A young Muslim scholar who traveled throughout North Afr. and the ME

Question 25

Bananas

Answer 25

Caused a population explosion when they were traded from Indonesia to Africa