Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz - AP World

The founder of the Mongol Empire

• Genghis Khan

• Emperor Xiu

• Mansa Musa

• Shah Abbas

A triangular sail that made it possible to sail against the wind; used in Indian Ocean Trade

• Short Sail

• Flexible Sail

• Articulated Sail

• Lateen Sail

An inn or rest station for travelers in the desert regions of Asia or North Africa

• Bucky's

• Caravanserai

• Temples

• Qanats

People who herd animals by moving from place to place following rainfall and plant growth

• itinerant herders

• nomadic pastoralists

• sedentary pastoralists

• Sedentary agriculturalists

Chinese credit instrument, nickname for one of the earliest forms of paper currency

• Flying Money

• Silk Coins

• Flattened Currency

• Schrute Bucks

The period of peace and stability across Eurasia during Mongol rule. It led to increased trade.

• Pax Mongolica

• Silk Road

• Stable path

• Commercial stability

Cities along the East African coast that dominated trade in the Indian Ocean

• Swahili City States

• Samarkand

• Indian Ocean Trade

• Mali Empire

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

• astrolabe

• lateen sail

• dhow ship

• telescope

Communities of traders with a common culture living together outside of their homeland.

• refugee camps

• diasporic merchant communities

• forced immigration camps

• cultural refuge shelters

the shift of an economic system from agriculture to trade

• commercialization

• de-agriculturalization

• desertification

• nomadic conversion