Student ______________________________
Mongols
1.
Why was Genghis Khan important to the success of the Mongols?
2.
What were the strengths of the Mongols? Weaknesses?
3.
Where did the Mongols conquer?
4.
What ideas did the Mongols get from the people they conquered?
5.
What evidence can support that Mongols had a positive influence on those they conquered?
6.
What evidence can support that Mongols had a negative influence on those they conquered?
7.
How did the treatment of Mongol women compare to other civilizations?
8.
How did the Mongols influence each area? a.
China b.
Persia c.
Russia
9.
Why did the Mongols decline?
Africa/Trans-Saharan Trade:
1.
Where did the Bantu people originate? Where did they migrate to? Why?
2.
What advances did they spread to the areas they migrated to?
3.
Why did the advanced kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai form?
4.
How did trans-Saharan trade culturally change West Africa?
5.
What city emerged as a commercial and cultural center for West Africa? (there was a university here)
6.
Why was Mansa Musa an important leader for Mali?
7.
Why were the travels of Ibn Battuta important?
8.
What animal enabled the gold-salt trade to take place?
Indian Ocean Trade
1.
What political, economic, and cultural impacts did increased trade have on surrounding regions?
2.
What ideas started in southern Asia and then spread along trade routes? (think of Gupta advances)
3.
What prior knowledge did people need in order to travel around the Indian Ocean? How did technology later help increase participation in this trade route?
4.
What language formed in East Africa from the mixing of Bantu and Arabic?
Ming
1.
To protect against invaders, what did the Ming rebuild?
2.
Why did the Ming begin overseas voyages?
3.
What happened to the overseas expeditions after the death of Zheng He?
4.
What ideas did the Ming bring back to China?