1.3 South Southeast Asia Global Tapestry

Marco Polo (1254 C.E. - 1324 C.E.)

• Italian Traveler

• Spanish Traveler

• English Merchant

• Random Dude

Ibn Battuta (1304 C.E. - 1369 C.E.)

• Islamic Traveler

• Spanish Traveler

• Moroccan Islamic Traveler

• Random Dude

Tamerlane (1336 C.E. - 1405 C.E.)

• Spanish Conquistador

• Turco-Mongol Conqueror

• Mongolian Trader

• Random Dude

Zhenghe (1371 C.E. - 1435 C.E.)

• Chinese Islamic Merchant

• Chinese Islamic Navigator

• Creator of Islam

• Random Dude

A _______________ is a place where the Sultan claims to rule the territory, but not the Islamic Faith.

• Tamerlane

• Sultanate

• Mongolian

• Barbaric

A Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300's.

• Timbuktu

• Quran

• Urdu

• Qilin

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.

• Zhenghe

• Tamerlane

• Timbuktu

• Maharaja

An enormous Buddhist temple complex located in northern Cambodia.

• Mosque

• Imperial Temple

• Temple Town

• Angkor Wat

Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336 C.E. - 1405 C.E.)

• Timbuktu

• Tamerlane

• Ibn Battuta

• Zhenghe

"Great ruler", "Great king," "High king"

• Maharaja

• Urdu

• Qilin

• Angkor Wat