Chapter 11 Lesson 2
Study Questions

1) What was the outcome of the trade routes coming together?
2) Who controlled most of the land I the 700's?
3) What people did the Muslim empire include?
4) Who was the "ship of the desert"?
5) How long could they go without water?
6) How far could a camel walk in ten hours?
7) What was an oasis?
8) What is a caravansaries?
9) What helped connect the many peoples living the lands controlled by the Muslims?
10) How did the Muslims use the gold from West Africa?
11) What new ideas did the Muslim scholars have and develop?
12) What number system did the Muslims develop?
13) What is a cartographers?
14) What achievements of the Muslim Empire resulted from the exchange of ideas?
15) Who were the Mongols?
16) What was the Silk Road?
17) What city made the most money on the merchant travel on the Silk road?
18) What cities signed trade treaties with the Mongols?
19) What products did these cities buy deep in Mongol territory?
20) When the Silk road became dangerous, how did Europeans trade?
21) How did the Mongol empire's control of the trade routes help Europeans?
22) Why did the Muslims travel to India?
23) What were some of the goods that flowed into India?
24) What were some of the goods that flowed out of India?