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| 247028263 | 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 | |
| 247028264 | Tropics | Region of the Earth between the tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. | 1 | |
| 247028265 | Monsoon | Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean that allowed for easy long distance trade in and around the Indian Ocean. | 2 | |
| 247028266 | Dehli Sultanate | Centralized Indian empire of varying extent, created by Muslim invaders. | 3 | |
| 247028267 | Mali | Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade. | 4 | |
| 247028268 | Mansa Kankan Musa | Ruler of Mali (1312-1337). His pilgrimage through Egypt to mecca in 1324-25 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world. | 5 | |
| 247028269 | Gujarat | Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing; the inhabitants are called Gujaratis. | 6 | |
| 247028270 | Dhows | Characteristic cargo and passenger ships of the Arabian Sea. | 7 | |
| 247028271 | Swahili Coast | East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River; from the Arabic swahili meaning, "shores" | 8 | |
| 247028272 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins whose stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. | 9 | |
| 247028273 | 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 | |
| 247028274 | Malacca | Port city in modern Southeast Asian country of Malaysia, founded about 1400 as a trading center on the Strait of Malacca. | 11 | |
| 247028275 | Timbuktu | City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As part of the Mali Empire, Timbuktu became a major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of learning. | 12 | |
| 247028276 | Urdu | A Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300's. | 13 |
