Unit 2 Vocab and Must Know People

Question 1

Maritime

Answer 1

Connected to the sea in relation to navigation, shipping, trade, etc.

Question 2

Monsoon

Answer 2

A seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and Southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.

Question 3

Entrepot

Answer 3

Trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit.

Question 4

Example of Entrepot?

Answer 4

To illustrate, the reluctance of merchants to travel the entire length of the Silk Road made them more willing to sell to an entrepôt instead.

Question 5

Caravanserais

Answer 5

An inn usually with a large courtyard for travelers with caravans. In Asia and North Africa

Question 6

“Flying Money”

Answer 6

Is a type of paper negotiable instrument used during China’s Tang Dynasty invented by merchants but adopted by state.

Question 7

Astrolabe

Answer 7

An instrument used by astronomers and navigators to measure the altitude about the horizon of a celestial body, day or night, Astrolabes were very effective for determining latitude on land or on clam seas and allowed sailors to sail further distances from the shoreline.

Question 8

Who created the compass?

Answer 8

Han Dynasty, more for fortune telling first.

Question 9

Dhow

Answer 9

Trading vessel primarily used to carry heavy items along the coastlines of the Indian Ocean.

Question 10

Diasporic community

Answer 10

Communities of displaced population either permanently or temporarily separated from racial or ethnic identity. (Diasporic merchants)

Question 11

Lateen sail

Answer 11

Triangular sail set on a long pole amounted at an angle on the mast; allows a boat to tack “against the wind”; used on Dhows in the Indian Ocean.

Question 12

caravans

Answer 12

A group of merchants traveling together across the Silk Roads or Trans-Saharan trade routes.

Question 13

Gunpowder

Answer 13

A mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate invented in the 9th century from China.

Question 14

bubonic plague

Answer 14

Most common form of the plague. Swollen and tender lymph glands, fever, headaches, coughing up blood. Spread from fleas from rats to humans, humans are contagious to other humans when vomiting blood.

Question 15

Shamanism

Answer 15

Mongol belief system. Based on the premise that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits that affect the lives of the living.

Question 16

Khanate

Answer 16

Regional Mongol empires that arose following the death of Genghis Khan

Question 17

Pax Mongolica

Answer 17

Describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol empire on the social. Cultural, and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Question 18

Griot

Answer 18

West-African storyteller/served as keepers of tradition and advisors to Kings of Mali.

Question 19

Maharaja

Answer 19

Originated from Sanskrit and means “great ruler” title used by Hindu monarchs of the princely states in South Asia.

Question 20

Sultanate

Answer 20

Islamic state ruled by a sultan(monarch)

Question 21

Indian Ocean gyre

Answer 21

Large system of rotating ocean currents and is composed of the south Equatorial Current and the West Australian Current controls the monsoons.

Question 22

Who controls the monsoons again?

Answer 22

West Australian Current

Question 23

Thalassocracy

Answer 23

Primary maritime empire, empire at sea, seaborne empire. No interior land.

Question 24

Kublai Khan time?

Answer 24

1215-1294

Question 25

Marco Polo

Answer 25

Venetian explorer and merchant who traveled to the Yuan dynasty in China. Hosted by Kublai Khan at the empirical palace. 1254-1324

Question 26

Kublai Khan

Answer 26

Grandson of Genghis Khan, conquered China and created the Mongol dynasty(Yuan) there.

Question 27

Genghis Khan alternate name? And time?

Answer 27

Chinggis and 1162-1227

Question 28

Genghis Khan

Answer 28

Founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. He came to power by uniting the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia and his empire came the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. The empire also stabilized the Silk Road and facilitated trade along it.

Question 29

Mansa Musa

Answer 29

King of Mali and famous for his Hajj journey. HE is African. Ruined the local economies of many places with his “gifts”

Question 30

Ibn Battuta

Answer 30

Moroccan explorer known for his extensive travels throughout Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia. Accounts of his journey were published in the Rihla.

Question 31

Ibn time?

Answer 31

1304-1369

Question 32

Zheng He

Answer 32

1371-1433. Chinese court Eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa during the early Ming dynasty. Reestablish Chinese dominance in Indian Ocean.

Question 33

Chabi

Answer 33

Empress consort of Kublai Khan and unofficial adviser. Suggested better treatment of the Chinese to appease the people.(1225)

Question 34

Johannes Gutenberg

Answer 34

1400-1468. German printer and publisher who introduced mechanical moveable type printing to Europe and started the Printing Revolution.

Question 35

Sundiata Time?

Answer 35

1217-1255

Question 36

Sundiata

Answer 36

Founder of the Malian Empire. His history was recorded through the epic poem the Epic of Sundiata, transmitted orally by griots.

Question 37

You know all your geography too?

Answer 37

No.