technological advances
What did the magnetic compass help with? Where was it invented?
A: It helped with maritime navigating and allowing for longer sea voyages
B: Invented in China
What religion did most Mongols convert to?
Islam
Name 3 trade routes that improved commercial practices and transportation technologies
Silk Roads, Indian Ocean and Trans-Saharan Trade network
What disease spread in the Silk Roads and hit population very hard
Black Death (bubonic plague)
What Empire became known for trading gold & salt
Mali Empire
These ship innovations improved trade and allowed heavy cargo to exchange goods and be traded between distant regions. Name two of these ship innovations.
Junk Ships, Rudder, Lateen sails
Venetian merchant who traveled to China and inspired European interest in Asia
Marco Polo
Where does paper money come from?
China
What two regions was China connected to by the Silk Roads
Europe and the middle East
What sort of labor became more widespread due to the increase of trade
slavery
These "safe havens" provided an inn for people that trade along the Silk Road. People expressed their culture to other people, thus different technology, cultures, and religions spread. This also allowed camels to rest.
Caravanserai
Religions spread along the silk road, what were 3 of the religions that spread through the trade network?
Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Hinduism
Africa possessed two valuable resources and others as well. Name the two most valuable and one of their other resources they traded
Gold and Salt
Ivory and Slaves
One specific item that was very popular within this trading system
Silk
Mongol leader that created the largest empire in the world; created tribal alliances and defeated neighboring groups.
Genghis Khan
Arab invention that helped sailors find the latitude of the sea
Astrolabe
The rise and protection of caravanerais and commercial cities is due to what empire?
The Mongol Empire
These European developed these during the Middle Ages to aid trade. Along with innovations such as bills of exchange, or bank drafts, and credit, the rise of ? supported the development of interregional trade in luxury goods.
Banking Houses
Innovations that enhanced the Silk Road Trade Network. Name 2 of them.
camels, caravans, astrolabe, and camel saddles
Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
Pax Mongolica
The Mongolians had three technological fighting innovations that influenced future war and western fighting, what are 2 of them?
Siege Weapons
Pony Express (horseback fighting)
Knights in Armor
Buddhism spread effectively in Asia and Southeast Asia due to the trade networks. Today there are nearly 500 million people who practice the religion around the world. Name 2 of the top 5 countries with the largest Buddhist populations!
Vietnam: 15.6 million to 22.6 million
TRIPLE PLAY: Trade cities developed around the three trading networks. Name 3 of the trading cities we have studied.
Novgorod, Timbuktu, Swahili city-states, Hangzhou, Calicut, Baghdad, Melaka, Venice, Tenochtitlan, Cahokia
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Write a Thesis statement and tell me which historical thinking this LEQ Prompt is.
Develop an argument that evaluates the similarities and differences in the methods used to facilitate trade along the Silk Roads compared to the Indian Ocean trade network in the period c. 1200 to c. 1450.
Comparison
Although both the Silk Roads and the Indian Ocean trade network relied on commercial and financial innovations to facilitate interregional transactions, they differed in their primary transportation methods. The Silk Road trade depended on camel saddles, caravans, and caravanserais while Indian Ocean trade relied on maritime innovations like lateen sails, astrolabes, and the prediction of seasonal monsoon winds.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY AGAIN!
In our assignment, 2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity Map we annotated 4 crops on a map to learn about the diffusion of crops on the trade Network. What were the four crops?
Champa Rice, bananas, citrus, and cotton