CROSS CULTURAL INTERACTIONS

CULTURES ENCOUNTERED

• Religious leaders
• Introduce new food and commercial crops to sub-Saharan Africa
• Spread technological innovations throughout the easter hemisphere

MAJOR CITIES ENCOUNTERED

• Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Mecca
• Mesopotamia and Persia
• Anatolia, Constantinople, Bokhara, and Samarkand
• Quanzhou and Guangzhou

MAJOR LANDMARKS ENCOUNTERED

• War between Venice and Genoa
• Black Sea and South China Sea
• Pharos Lighthouse
• Pyramids of Giza

TRADE

• Luxury goods such as silk textiles and precious stones
• Melaka became the principal clearinghouse of trade in the 1390's
• Textiles, spices, gems, and other goods