[HIST 1087] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (102 pages long!)
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Silk roads marco traveled on the silk roads he returns on the spice route (key word) Spices were more valuable than gold very tradeable and usable pepper was so valuable because spices were used for medicine they also added avor to the foods, european cuisine has not been stable over the centuries. Mamelukes in egypt - slave soldiers purchased as slaves, converted to islam, trained soldiers, then they run the country separate from the general population. Fertile crescent to hormuz this route is famed for prosperity. Feitoria (key word) means factory, but is a forti ed trading post not a colony*** a few hundred people at most base of operations, secured with troops, well defended. The post-mongol empires: ottoman, safavid, mughal, ming, and russian. Ve great empires of eurasia constituted the most populous, powerful, and wealthy states in the early modern world. Timur is one of the great conquerors in history.
