APWH P3 2.4-2.7 Trans-Saharan and Consequences of Trade - Terms & Vocab

A series of trade networks through Central Asia that linked Europe, Indian, and China through the trade of luxury items while being facilitated by Buddhist monasteries.  

• Gold Roads

• Silk Roads

• Sand Roads

• Sea Roads

A series of plagues that hit Europe in the 14th Century transported by fleas on black rats aboard ships and across the Silk Roads, showing the dangerous side of global trade networks.The resulting death-toll killed almost half of Europe's population.  

• The Black Death

• Spanish Flu

• SARS

• Cat Scratch Fever

A Muslim traveller of the 14th century who benefitted from the openness and stability of the Islamic World, going on the hajj and traveling throughout the Islamic World, documenting the differences and similarities between Muslims.  

• Ibn Battuta

• Mansa Musa

• Marco Polo

• Zheng He

The more mystical and spiritual side of Islam, whose followers developed art and poetry and philosophy to understand the prophet and his teachings.  Their work would come to define Islamic culture.  

• Sikhism 

• Shia

• Sunni

• Sufism

From the latin for "rebirth" this era in European History saw the rediscovery of Greco-Roman knowledge and Humanism following increased interaction with the East brought about by interactions via the Crusades and Pax Mongolica

• Renaissance

• Safavid Era

• Middle Ages

• Enlightenment

Originally nomadic peoples of central Asia, some groups of this culture would settle and adopt Islam, becoming some of the most fearsome and successful Islamic rulers.  

• Turkish Nomads

• Mamaluks

• Tartars

• Mongols

Strong, predictable seasonable winds in the Indian Ocean which facilitated trade routes and allowed for massive amounts of goods to pass across the vast distances of the Indian Ocean.  

• The Gulf Stream

• Zephyrs 

• Monsoons

• Trade Winds

An important trade state located near its namesake "straits" that would control trade on the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean Trade network and become a target for European colonization because of its strategic value.  

• Srivijaya 

• Akbar

• Qing

• Malacca 

The name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century CE it may have been bubonic plague, anthrax or a collection of epidemic diseases.

• Borobudur

• Great Zimbabwe

• Black Death

• Swahili Civilization

an Arab traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records.

• House of Wisdom

• hijra

• madrassas

• Ibn Battuta