Trans-Saharan, Western European Sea and River, and South China Sea and Lands of Southeast Asia
15
What three trade routes are shown in this image?
Maritime, Silk Road, and Northern European Links with the Black Sea
15
Where do the following goods all come from? Compass, amber, gold+salt, and windmills+waterwheels?
Compass=China
Amber= Baltic Region
Gold+salt= West Africa
Windmills+waterwheels= Middle East
15
Give three of the four regions that textiles were produced in.
China, India, Middle East, and Europe
15
What nation did Buddhism begin in and in what order did it spread to the next three nations we studied?
Began in India, then spread to China, Korea, and Japan
10
What region had the lateen sail, new crops such as sugar, and spices?
The Indian Ocean region
10
Japan is a chain of islands called an ______ and their terrain was mostly _____.
archipelago; mountainous
10
What religion was native to Japan and give three things it worshipped.
Shinto
- Natural features
- Forces of nature
- Ancestors
- The emperor
15
What three things heavily influenced Japanese culture that came from China?
Their writing, architecture, and Buddhism
15
What nation in Africa became a Christian nation and was located in the Ethiopian Highlands?
Axum (Aksum)
10
What two rivers was the nation of Zimbabwe located between, what was their capital city, and describe the city.
Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, Great Zimbabwe, and a large walled city that was mysteriously abandoned.
15
What three nations grow in western Africa that relied heavily on the trade of gold and salt? Also, what major city was a trading center for the last two nations?
Ghana, Mali, Songhai.
Timbuktu
10
What religion were most people in Africa before the spread of Islam and Christianity into the region? Also, what does this religion worship?
Animism and nature
10
Which of the three Mesoamerican civilizations we studied did not use pyramids? Why did they not construct pyramids like the other two?
Incan; because they had mountains to use instead
10
What political units were the Mayans divided into and why?
City-states; the rainforest kept them seperated
15
Which city was the most notable for the Mayans? What were there a lot of throughout the city?