Unit 3: Trade and Travellers: Silk Road, Indian Ocean Trade, African trade, Timbuktu, Mali, Mansa Musa, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He (Chapter 7, 12 and lecture notes, review book)

1. an innovation made by China used to navigate in the Indian Ocean trade
4. this allowed sailors to go sail to different regions of Asia based on the time of the year
7. the captain of the large fleet that was launched into the South China Sea and South East Asian port cities by Emperor Yongle. He was also a Muslim eunuch
8. main thing traded in the African trade network
9. main good generated and traded in the African trade network
10. a famous Muslim traveler who was shocked after seeing some civilizations in Africa on how there was no hierarchical relationship between the sexes to show the inferiority of woman.
12. a famous European merchant from Venetia, who visited China through the Mongol empire
14. a Chinese innovation that spread across Europe and Asia and was important to record events more
16. a city that was in Mali and was the center of Islamic learning while housing many universities. It was the wealthiest city in the region
17. this animal was mainly used to trade goods in Africa
18. an empire in the Niger River basin that was ruled once by a very wealthy ruler

2. a famous and wealthy ruler of the empire Mali who gave away a lot of gold during his journey from West Africa to the city of Mecca
3. this empire facilitated trade and communication in the Silk Road
5. a very popular luxury item that was traded mostly in the Silk Road and made mostly in China
6. a trade network that involved trading of an array of goods because one could carry a lot of goods in one ship
11. a religion that spread widely throughout Central and East Asia through the Silk Road
13. a disease that followed any trade routes or networks and killed many people (~50-90% affected)
15. a religion that spread widely throughout Africa and the Indian Ocean trade network