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| "City of Spices" for its role as the major trading point of eastern spices. In southern India,"one of the great ports of the district of Malabar" where "merchants of all parts of the world are found defeated by ottomans |
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| the most populous, cosmopolitan, and civilized city in the world at its peak, Capital was built there under Tang Taizong |
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| (1202-1204)Traded Relics,Damascene steel, Alum,Spices, Granulated sugar, Coffee |
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| A signal that the cloth fair was about to open. and during the official ten days of cloth trade, no other transactions could be made |
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| once was the Mongol capital:also a international colony including:French, Germans, Hungarians, Slavs, at least one Englishman, Central Asians,persians, turks, |
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| elite group of islamic merchants that increased their relationship with egypt especially |
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| Buddhist kingdom that was located on the branch of the Silk Road, present day Xinjiang, China. was the kingdoms capital |
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| major tradeisland off east coast of africa.Traded mainly in gold and iron from Zimbabwe, ivory and from Tanzania, and textiles, jewelry, porcelain, and spices from Asia. Owner was persian |
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| the fifth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294 and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in East Asia. became the first non-Chinese Emperor who conquered all China |
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| a Persianate Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin. Ruled up until the mongol invasions. |
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| a good port—it was accessible in all seasons and on the strategically located narrowest point of the Malacca Straits.major international port, a lot of Chinese inhabitants. |
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| A soldier of slave origin,became a powerful military caste in various Muslim societies. Particularly in Egypt, but also in the Levant, Iraq, and India, mamluks held political and military power. |
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| a term that was applied at first to the convoy itself and later to the time set for its sailing. |
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| clothes of silk and gold;known in Italian, Chinese, Latin, Qipchaq Turkic, Persian, Arabic, and Mongolian sources |
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| "Mongol Peace" is a phrase coined by Western scholars to describe the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.he end of the Pax Mongolica was marked by political fragmentation of the Mongol Empire and the outbreak of the Black Death in Asia which spread along trade routes to much of the world. |
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| a tablet of authority for the Mongol officials and envoys. This enabled the Mongol nobles and officials to demand goods and services from civilian populations. |
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| responsible for the La Practica della Mercatura, merchant guide manual-a precious document for the study of medievil trade. |
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| Iranian-speaking people, Sogdian functioned as a “trade language” in Central Asia. (dominated long distance trade)Well known towns:Samarkand and Bukhara |
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| a powerful ancient Malay empire based on the island of Sumatra, modern day Indonesia, which influenced much of Southeast Asia. Buddhists Center |
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| a Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa, collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the Western Ocean" |
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