Unit 2 Flashcards
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Monsoons
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predicable yearly storms. Summer Northeast Winds, Winter Southeast Winds.
2
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Magnetic Compass
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- allowed sailors to their bearing without the sight of the sun
3
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Astrolabe
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- allowed sailors to calculated the latitude
4
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Chinese Junks
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- huge bottomed ships to carry 500 men and big trunks loads of payloads for trade
5
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Kashgar
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- western edge of China where northern and southern routes of the Silk Roads crosses
6
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Samarkand
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- was a stopping point on the Silk Roads between China and the Mediterranean
7
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Caravanserai
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- places where travelers would rest and get the plague form animals then spread it
8
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Commercial Innovations
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- to mange the increasing trade, China developed new systems.
9
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Money economy
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- using money instead of like spices
10
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Flying Cash
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- allowed merchants to deposit paper money under his name in one location and withdraw the same amount at another location
11
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Hanseatic League
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- controlling trade in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, monopolizing trade in goods
12
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Khan
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- King
13
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Kuriltia
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Meeting for Genghis Khan
14
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The beginning of Conquest
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Genghis Khan and his troops headed east and attacked the powerful Jin Empire.
15
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Khanate
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- Kingdom, reached from the North China Sea to eastern Persia
