| Term | Definition |
| navigation | locating the position and plotting the course of a ship |
| muhammad | taught that there was only one god (islam) |
| visited 30 nations in asia and africa with his fleet of giant ships | Zheng he |
| east Africa's major trade centers | kilwa and zimbobway |
| Ghana and Timbuktu | west Africa's major trade centers |
| mansa musa | in the 1200's the ruler of the empire of mali |
| a piece of land that linked africa, asia, and europe | arabian peninsula |
| silk road | a famous road that was 5000 trade routes that stretched from xian in china to persia |
| compass | one inventions the arabs made |