Chapter 22: Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions
Geography Skills: locate the following areas on the provided maps. Terms are
listed in order from top to bottom
Europe
Arabian Sea
Yellow Sea
Genoa
Persian Gulf
East China Sea
Venice
Atlantic Ocean
Sea of Japan
Constantiople
Maldive Islands
Mongol Empires
Moscow
Ceylon
Marco Polo’s travels
Baghdad
Indus River
Ibn Battuta’s travels
Jerusalem
Ganges River
Mediterranean Sea
Siraf
Bay of Bengal
Cuba
Cairo
Delhi
San Salvador
Medina
India
Hispaniola
Mecca
Melaka
Azores
Mogadishu
Sumatra
Lisbon
Malindi
Java
Seville
Mombasa
Indian Ocean
Granada
Kilwa
South China Sea
Ceuta
Madagascar
Pacific Ocean
Canary Island
Fez
Karakorum
Cape Verde Islands
Timbuktu
Khanbaliq
Cape of Good Hope
Mali
Hangzhou
Sofala
Sahara
Quanzhou
Siraf
Africa
Guangzhou
Arabian Sea
Black Sea
Yellow River (Huang
Calicut
Caspian Sea
He)
Strait of Melaka
Aral Sea
Yangzi River (Chang
Antarctica
Red Sea
Jiang)
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Historical Terms and Concepts to Know
*Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what? (please include page number(s) in your
notes. The terms and concepts are listed in order from top to bottom (except for Sources
from the Past)
Ibn Battuta (565; 566; 568; 569; 571;
Hongwu (579)
572)
Ming Centralization (579)
qadi (565; 571)
Mandarins and Eunuchs (579)
Muhammad ibn Tughluq (565)
Cultural Revival (in China) (580)
Bunbonic Plague (566; 577; 578; 579;
Holy Roman Empire (580)
580)
Hundred Years’ War (1337-1543)
Trade, diplomacy, and
Taxes and Armies (581)
missionary activity (566)
Italian States (581)
silk roads’ goods (566)
France and England (581)
sea-lanes’ goods (566)
Spain (581)
Trading Cities (566)
Russia (581)
Melaka (567)
Novgorod (582)
Mongol conquests (567)
Hanseatic League… (582)
Marco Polo (565; 566; 567; 568; 569;
tsar (582)
570)
renaissance (582-583)
Khubilai Khan (567; 569; 570)
Italian Renaissance Art (583)
Mongol-Christian Diplomacy (570)
Renaissance Architecture (583)
Rabban Sauma (570)
The Humanists (583)
sharia (571)
Humanist Moral Thought (584)
Sufi Missionaries (571)
Renaissance Europe and the Larger World (584)
Christian Missionaries (571)
Zheng He’s Expeditions (585)
John of Montecorvino (573)
Chinese Naval Power (586)
Cultural Exchanges (573-574)
End of the (Ming) Voyages (586)
troubadours of western Europe
Portuguese Exploration (586)
(573)
Colonization of the Atlantic Islands (587)
European scientists (573)
Slave Trade (587)
magnetic compass (573)
Indian Ocean Trade (587)
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Spread of Crops (574-575)
Zheng He’s voyages (587-588)
cotton textiles (575)
Dias’s voyage (587-588)
Sugarcane (575)
Da Gama’s voyage (587-588)
Muslim merchants (575)
Columbus’s voyage (587-588)
Slave laborers (575)
Christopher Columbus (590)
Gunpowder Technologies (575-576)
The Little Ice Age (577)
Origins of Epidemic Bubonic Plague (577)
Spread of Plague (577)
Social and Economic Effects
(of Bubonic Plague) (578)
Sources from the Past: Ibn Battuta on Customs in the Mali Empire (572)
Sources from the Past: John of Montecorvino on His Mission in China (574)