_The Earth And Its Peoples_ Terms: Chapter 15, Tropic Africa And Asia, 1200-1500 Ce

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Aden

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Port city in the modern south Arabia country of Yemen. It has been a major trading center in the Indian Ocean since ancient times.

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Delhi Sultanate

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1200s-1500s
Centralized Indian empire of varying extent, created by Muslim invaders.

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Dhow

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Ship of small to moderate size used in the western Indian Ocean, traditionally with a triangular sail and a sewn timber hull.

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Great Zimbabwe

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City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.

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Gujarat

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Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing; the inhabitants are called Gujarati.

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Ibn Battuta

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1300s
Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visit to Islamic lands from CHina to Spain and the western Sudan.

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Kangxi

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1600s-1700s
Qing emperor (r. 1600s-1700s). He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire.

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Malacca

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Port city in the modern Southeast Asian country of Malaysia, founded about 1400 as a trading center on the Strait of Malacca. Also spelled Melaka.

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Mali

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Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.

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Mansa Kankan Musa

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Ruler of Mali (r. 1300s). His pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.

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Swahili Coast

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East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River; from the Arabic "sawahil," meaning "shores."

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Timbuktu

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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 Islamic learning.

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Tropics

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Equatorial region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. IT is characterized by generally warm or hot temperatures year-round, though much variation exists due to altitude and other factors. Temperate zones north and south of the tropics generally have a winter season.

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Urdu

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A Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300s.

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Monsoon

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Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean waters. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors, and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India, Southeast Asia, and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.