Historical Trade Routes & Sites: Silk Road, Borobudur, Great Zimbabwe, Quizzes of World History

Download Historical Trade Routes & Sites: Silk Road, Borobudur, Great Zimbabwe and more Quizzes World History in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Silk Road DEFINITION 1 refers to a historical network of interlinking trade routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as well as parts of North and East Africa. TERM 2 Borobudur DEFINITION 2 is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. TERM 3 Great Zimbabwe DEFINITION 3 a ruined city that was once the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe, which existed from approximately 1100 to 1400 during the country-s Late Iron Age. TERM 4 trans-Saharan slave trade DEFINITION 4 Islamic views on slavery first developed out of the slavery practices of pre-Islamic Arabia. During the wars between different states/tribes in various parts of the world, prisoners/captives were either killed or enslaved. TERM 5 Marco Polo DEFINITION 5 was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China.