Unit 2 Review

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Across
  1. 3. Coming from Southeast Asia, this fruit became a staple in East Africa.
  2. 6. Because of practical limitations to overland travel, only these types of goods were traded along the Silk Roads and Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.
  3. 7. This device uses the sun, stars, and the horizon to pinpoint your latitude. It improved naval safety, and the ability of sea travel.
  4. 10. This was the primary animal used in overland trade during 1200-1450; It was used in both Trans-Saharan and Silk Road commerce.
  5. 11. Prior to Industrialization, this man was probably the most traveled human in history.
  6. 12. This military technology diffused from East Asia to the Middle East to Europe. It was influential in subsequent Turkic Empires, European colonial Empires, and the Chinese and Russian domination of Central Asian Pastoral Nomads.
  7. 13. This rice variety from modern-day Vietnam was fast growing and helped the urbanization and industrialization of Song China.
  8. 14. This environmental phenomenon drastically increased trade in the Indian Ocean.
  9. 16. This guaranteed payment for goods at a later date. Created by Arab merchants, it helped facilitate trade along the Silk Roads and the Indian Ocean Basin.
  10. 17. This piece of technology allowed for better use of camels in trade and combat.
  11. 19. This is the dispersion of people from their homeland. Because of trade, many peoples, Arabs, Persians, Malays, and Chinese all created communities outside of their homelands between 1200-1450.
  12. 20. Coming from China, this device always points north with aids the user in navigation on land or on sea.
  13. 21. This was Chinggis Khans original name.
  14. 22. This is a Bantu language highly influenced by Arabic. It also refers to Indian Ocean trading cities-states along the East Coast of Africa.
Down
  1. 1. This Admiral went around the Indian Ocean basin during the Ming Dynasty in order to “reestablish” Chinese trade in the region.
  2. 2. This was the nominal capital of the Mongol Empire. People were brought and moved here from all over Eurasia.
  3. 4. This famous disease spread during the Pax Mongolica and resulted in millions of death across Eurasia.
  4. 5. This was a period of peace ushered in by the Mongol domination of Central and East Asia. It allowed for cheaper trade and cultural diffusion across Asia.
  5. 8. This was essentially a “rest stop” along the Silk Roads where Merchants would refuel, trade, and interact with other cultures.
  6. 9. Strategically located on a strait between the Indian Ocean and China, this state’s leaders were Muslim and it supplanted Shirvajaya as a major port in Post-classical trade. Between 1200-1450 it was one of the most cosmopolitan cities on the planet.
  7. 14. After his travels along the Silk Roads and into the Mongol Khanates, this gem merchant had the unenviable task of telling the Venetians that thiers was not the largest city in the world.
  8. 15. Initially invented in China, this could be exchanged for goods and services and was much lighter and less bulky than coins.
  9. 18. This famous King of Mali was the richest man to have ever lived. Along his Hajj to Mecca, he caused inflation in Egypt due to the amount of gold he gave away as charity.