Deck 8: D: Commerce and Culture 500-1500

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Answer 1

Sand Roads

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
A well-born,wealthy merchant and seaman of Norwegian Viking background who led an unsuccessful expedition to establish a colony on the coast of what is now Newfoundland Canada in the early eleventh century C.E.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Answer 2

Thorfinn Karlsefni

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
An East African civilization that emerged in the eighth century C.E.from a blending of Bantu,Islamic,and other Indian Ocean trade elements.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Answer 3

Swahili civilization

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
The world's largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 C.E. ,this commercial system stretched from southern China to eastern Africa and included not only the exchange of luxury and bulk goods but also the exchange of ideas and crops.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
A Malay kingdom that dominated the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 C.E. ;noted for its creation of a native/Indian hybrid culture.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Land-based trade routes that linked Eurasia.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
The largest religious structure in the premodern world;construction began on this temple,which is located in modern Cambodia,in the early 1100s C.E.It was built to express a Hindu understanding of the cosmos,centered on a mythical Mount Meru,the home of the gods in Hindu tradition.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the twelfth century C.E. ,exporting West Africans captured in raids across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
The name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the fourteenth century C.E. ;it may have been bubonic plague,anthrax,or a collection of epidemic diseases.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Animal that made the long trek across the Sahara possible because it could travel for ten days without water.It stimulated trade and contact,which led to the establishment of West African empires and facilitated the spread of Islam into the region.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
A series of important states that developed in western and central Sudan in the period 500-1600 C.E.in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade (especially control of gold production).

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast;flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas;although less intense and complete than the Afro-Eurasian trade networks,this web nonetheless provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example .
Professional merchants among the Aztecs.

A)Silk Roads
B)Black Death
C)Indian Ocean trading network
D)Srivijaya
E)Arabian camel
F)Angkor Wat
G)Swahili civilization
H)Great Zimbabwe
I)Sand Roads
J)Ghana,Mali,Songhay
K)trans-Saharan slave trade
L)American web
M)Thorfinn Karlsefni
N)pochteca