Unit 2 Vocab Quiz

Question 1

Silk Roads

Answer 1

An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea

Question 2

caravan

Answer 2

Groups of people traveling together for safety over long distances

Question 3

caravanserai

Answer 3

Roadside inns along major trade routes like the ancient Silk Road, that doubled as hubs for the exchange of goods, ideas, and culture

Question 4

junk

Answer 4

A very large flat bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel

Question 5

Kashgar

Answer 5

Located on Western edge of China where Northern and Southern routes of the Silk Road met
* Central trading point where East/West and North/South parts of Silk Roads met

Question 6

Samarkand

Answer 6

City in modern day Uzbekistan, stopping point on the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean

Question 7

flying cash

Answer 7

Enabled merchants to deposit goods or cash at one location and draw the equivalent in cash or merchandise elsewhere in China

Question 8

banking houses

Answer 8

an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done, Emerged in Europe

Question 9

Mongol Empire

Answer 9

The largest land-based empire in the history of the world, it grew out of a large group of nomads in modern-day Mongolia

Question 10

Genghis Khan

Answer 10

Also known as Temujin; he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history.

Question 11

khanate

Answer 11

one of several separate territories into which Genghis Khan’s empire was split, each under the rule of one of his sons

Question 12

Yuan Dynasty

Answer 12

Dynasty in China set up by the Mongols under the leadership of Kublai Khan, replaced the Song (1279-1368)

Question 13

Kublai Khan

Answer 13

Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather’s conquest of China

Question 14

Pax Mongolica

Answer 14

Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire

Question 15

monsoon winds

Answer 15

The seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.

Question 16

astrolabe

Answer 16

An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets

Question 17

diaspora

Answer 17

A dispersion of people from their homeland

Question 18

Calicut

Answer 18

Great spice port on west coast of India

Question 19

Malacca

Answer 19

Port city in the modern Southeast Asian country of Malaysia, founded about 1400 as a trading center on the Strait of Malacca.

Question 20

Swahili city-states

Answer 20

Dominated trade along the east African coast

Question 21

Zheng He

Answer 21

(1371-1433?) Chinese naval explorer who sailed along most of the coast of Asia, Japan, and half way down the east coast of Africa before his death.

Question 22

Ming Dynasty

Answer 22

Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644; took over after the fall of the Yuan dynasty

Question 23

trans-Saharan trade

Answer 23

gold-salt trade; linked North and West Africa; across Sahara Desert; spread Islam

Question 24

camel saddle

Answer 24

An invention which gives camel riders more stability on the animal and its invention and basic idea traveled along the Trans-Saharan Caravan Trade Route

Question 25

Mali

Answer 25

Power trading society in West Africa, rich in gold and ivory

Question 26

Sundiata

Answer 26

the founder of Mali empire. He crushed his enemies and won control of the gold trade routes

Question 27

Timbuktu

Answer 27

Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning

Question 28

Mansa Musa