World History 1200-1450

Travelers who made the world from 1200-1450 more accessable to others, through their journals and writings

• George Washington

• Marco Polo

• Ibn Batutta

• Napoleon

The Mongols and Genghis Khan innovated

• Post Offices and rapid movement of information

• Religious tolerance

• HIgher status of women

• Mathematics and algebra

Two new technologies that drastically changed life from 1200-1450

• Champa Rice

• Red Dye

• Paper(flying money)

• Vaccines

The map indicates that

• Mali was a major source and hub of the gold trade

• slavery existed in the western Sudan

• Europeans had begun to make inroads in West Africa

• Mali remained isolated from Europe and the Middle East

Which of the following best describes an effect of the establishment of the Mongol Empire upon Silk Road long distance trade?

• The Silk Road trade declined because the Mongol merchants preferred to use maritime long-distance trade networks instead.

• The Silk Road trade increased because the Mongol conquests helped connect more regions of Eurasia economically and commercially.

• The Silk Road trade was not affected by the Mongol conquests because the tribal and nomadic nature of Mongol society meant that Mongol demand for luxury goods was virtually nonexistent.

• The Silk Road trade collapsed following the Mongol conquests because most trading cities along the Silk Roads were destroyed and never recovered.

The thirteenth-century map of Constantinople shown below indicates that the city

• was located on an island

• was highly fortified against outside attacks

• tolerated many religions

• looked down on trade and commerce

The map below shows what significant economic developments?

• Trade connections that linked the Hellenistic and Mauryan empires to African cities from 300 through 150 B.C.E.

• Trading networks that promoted the growth of new cities from 600 C.E. through 1450 C.E

• Chinese dominance of Indian Ocean trading networks because of the voyages of Zheng He in the 1400s C.E.

• Changes in Indian Ocean trading networks that resulted from technological innovations from 1450 C.E. through 1750 C.E.

The photograph below shows a fourteenth century C.E. mosque in the city of Xi’an, central China. This image most clearly supports which of the following conclusions about the spread of Islam?

• Early Muslim communities in China adopted local architectural styles for their religious buildings.

• Political instability in fourteenth-century China encouraged the spread of Islam.

• Islam spread to China before Buddhism did.

• Early Muslim communities in China disguised their mosques as Confucian academies.

The Mongols defeated all of the following

• Abbasids in Iraq

• Russias in Asia

• China in Asia

• Africa

The illustration would be most useful to a historian studying which of the following?

• Transportation and maritime technologies

• Large-scale trading organizations

• Geographic patterns of currents and winds in the Indian Ocean

• The expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate