WHAP Unit 2 Test Review

An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea

• Silk Road
• Silk Route
• Trade Path
• China-Mediterranean Connection

Which trade network linked North and West Africa; across Sahara Desert; spread Islam

• spread Christianity
• linked North and South Africa

• across Gobi Desert

• gold-salt trade/Trans-Saharan Trade

Which trade network connected to Europe, Africa, and China.; worlds richest maritime trading network and an area of rapid Muslim expansion.

• Silk Road
• Trans-Saharan trade network
• Mediterranean trade network
• Indian Ocean trade network

People from Central Asia when united ended up creating the largest single land empire in history.

• Mongol Empire
• British Empire
• Roman Empire
• Ottoman Empire

An invention which gives camel riders more stability on the animal and its invention and basic idea traveled along the Trans-Saharan Caravan Trade Route

• astrolabe

• magnetic compass

• saddle

• gunpowder

Groups of people traveling together for safety over long distances

• convoy
• fleet
• brigade
• caravan

Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.

• Abu Bakr
• Muhammad Ali
• Ibn Battuta
• Saladin

Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco da Gama
• Marco Polo
• Ferdinand Magellan

Also known as Temujin and Chinggis Khan; he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history.

• Genghis Khan
• Kublai Khan
• Attila the Hun
• Alexander the Great

one of several separate territories into which Genghis Khan's empire was split, each under the rule of one of his sons

• Khanates
• Dynasties
• Conquests
• Mongolians