Chapter 13 Middleton Ap Lab

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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 variabtion exists due to altitude and other factors. Temperate zones north and south of hte tropics generally have a winter season.

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Tropics

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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 chaging 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 Asi, and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.

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Monsoons

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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

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Ibn Battuta

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Centralized Indian empire of varying extent, created by Muslim invaders.

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Delhi Sultanate

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

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Mali

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Rule of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.

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Mansa Kankan Musa

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

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Gujarat

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

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Dhow

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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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Swahili Coast

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City, now in ruins (in teh 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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Great Zimbabwe

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

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Aden

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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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Malacca

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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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Urdu

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City on the Niger River in the modern countery 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 and a center of Islamic learning.

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Timbuktu