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2. From 950 - 1250, along period of warm weather helped provide better what for farming?
5. The worst time of the 'little ice age' was during the years 1315 - 17, during which the Great Famine killed around 10% of what in north-west Europe?
6. Islam's holy book
8. Workers in poor physical condition could not produce as much food and so their living standards fell. They had little strength to fight off infection and low what?
11. In what century in central Asia did Turkic and Mongol pastoral nomads unite under the Mongol leader Temujin (Genghis Khan)
13. Founder of Islam
14. What transported ceramics, silks, spices and teas, as well as knowledge, ideas and inventions along the Silk Road?
15. One of the important centres of Islamic knowledge, architecture, culture and the exchange of ideas.
16. What was the name of the four territories that the 24 million square kilometres the Mongol empire covered was divided into?
17. The one God Mohammed taught people to believe in
18. What did they do to any cities that opposed them?

1. What did they encourage across their vast territories?
3. In many areas of Europe, the Black Death arrived in communities whose older members were already in poor physical condition from years of what?
4. Which sea did the economy of the Muslim extend throughout?
7. Pastoral nomads became highly successful warriors who established two huge what?
9. The Mongols developed a reputation for what?
10. Where was Mohammed born?
12. What became the main religion in Arabia?
16. What was the name of the ruler that each territory had?