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| 15080206382 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim Scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. | 0 | |
| 15080206383 | Tropics | Equatorial region between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer, generally characterized by warm of hot temperatures year round. | 1 | |
| 15080206384 | Monsoon | Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Asia and Africa and the slowly changing ocean waters. | 2 | |
| 15080206385 | Delhi Sultanate | Centralized Indian empire of varying extent, created by Muslim invaders. | 3 | |
| 15080206386 | Mali | Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the 13-15th centuries. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade. | 4 | |
| 15080206387 | Mansa Kankan Musa | Ruler of Mali (1312-1337). His pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world. | 5 | |
| 15080206388 | Gujarat | Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing; the inhabitants are called Gujaratis. | 6 | |
| 15080206389 | Dhows | Characteristic cargo and passenger ships of the Arabian sea. | 7 | |
| 15080206390 | Swahili Coast | East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River; from the Arabic sawahil, meaning "shores". | 8 | |
| 15080206391 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins, whose many stone structures were built between about 1250-1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. | 9 | |
| 15080206392 | Aden | Port city in the modern South Arabian country of Yemen. It has been a major trading center in the Indian Ocean since ancient times. | 10 | |
| 15080206393 | Malacca | Port city in the modern Southeast Asian country of Malaysia, founded about 1400 as a trading center on the Strait of Malacca. | 11 | |
| 15080206394 | Urdu | A Persian influenced literary form of Hindu, written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300's. | 12 | |
| 15080206395 | Timbukto | City on the Niger River in the modern city of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. Became a major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning. | 13 | |
| 15080206396 | Altepetl | An ethnic state in ancient Mesoamerica, the common political building block of that region. | 14 | |
| 15080206397 | Calpolli | A group of up to a hundred families that served as a social building block of an altepetl in ancient Mesoamerica. | 15 | |
| 15080206398 | Tenhchtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Mexico was constructed of its ruins. | 16 | |
| 15080206399 | Aztecs | Also known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in Central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.) They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax. | 17 | |
| 15080206400 | Tribute System | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay taxes in the form of goods and labor. This was an important component of Aztec/Inca economies. | 18 | |
| 15080206401 | Inca | Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco. | 19 | |
| 15080206402 | Khipus | System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. | 20 | |
| 15080206403 | Like other governments in the tropics, the Delhi Sultanate: | introduced extensive new water-control systems that were developed through public works projects. | 21 | |
| 15080206404 | Which of the following describes how Mali became a Muslim Kingdom? | Invasion by Arab armies. | 22 | |
| 15080206405 | While Mali depended on agriculture and caravan trade for its economic base, it also: | received extensive tribute payments that made up most of its wealth. | 23 | |
| 15080206406 | As sultan, Raziya is remembered for: | being a female sultan. | 24 | |
| 15080206407 | At its height, the Delhi Sultanate controlled: | all of India and much of modern Pakistan and Bangladesh, but not Sri Lanka. | 25 | |
| 15080206408 | The 14th century collapse of the Mongol Empire: | stimulated expansion of trade in the Indian Ocean. | 26 | |
| 15080206409 | The largest and most seaworthy ship in the Indian Ocean trade before 1500 was the: | Chinese Junk. | 27 | |
| 15080206410 | Archaeology reveals that by 1200, Indian Ocean trade from China had reached: | the southern Swahili Coast. | 28 | |
| 15080206411 | In southern Africa, the largest trade city of the 14th century was: | Great Zimbabwe. | 29 | |
| 15080206412 | In 14th century India, the status of a woman was: | largely determined by the status of her male master. | 30 | |
| 15080206413 | In relating with neighboring societies, the Aztecs: | assimilated conquered peoples. | 31 | |
| 15080206414 | Unlike cultures in Mesoamerica, the Inca: | Had no aristocracy. | 32 |
