Trade Routes
Technology & Trade
The Mongols
Cultural Exchange
Environment & Disease
Misc. & Bonus
100
What major overland trade network connected East Asia with Central Asia and regions farther west?
What is the Silk Roads?
100
What Chinese invention helped sailors determine direction?
What is The magnetic compass?
100
What title did Temujin take when he became the leader of the Mongols?
What is Genghis Khan?
100
What major religion spread widely across West Africa through trans-Saharan trade?
What is Islam?
100
What devastating disease spread along connected trade routes during this period?
What is The Black Death or The Bubonic Plague?
100
Name THREE major “items” traded along the Silk Roads.
Silk, Textiles, Buddhism, Black Death, Gunpowder, Tea, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Porcelain, Paper
200
What were caravanserais, and how did they support merchants?
What is roadside inns where merchants could rest, resupply, and protect goods during long journeys?
200
What type of sail helped sailors catch changing winds on the Indian Ocean?
What is the lateen sail (Triangle sail)?
200
What term describes the period of stability associated with Mongol rule that helped trade?
What is Pax Mongolica, or Mongol Peace
200
This religion, originating from India, was spread east along the Silk Roads
What is Buddhism?
200
What fast-maturing rice variety spread to China and helped increase agricultural production?
What is Champa Rice, Baby
200
Known in China as Jiaozi, this financial innovation allowed merchants to trade without carrying heavy copper coins.
What is Flying Cash (Paper Money)?
300
What seasonal wind patterns helped merchants plan travel across the Indian Ocean?
What is the Monsoon winds?
300
What navigation instrument associated with Muslim innovation helped sailors navigate at sea?
What is the astrolabe?
300
What dynasty did the Mongols establish in China?
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
300
What is a diasporic community?
What is a community living away from its homeland; in the Indian Ocean network, merchants sometimes settled in port cities and formed families there.
300
This crop which came along the trade routes contributed to population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is bananas?
300
What is one major difference between maritime trade and overland trade?
Maritime trade used ships and sea routes; overland trade used roads, caravans, and pack animals.
400
Name two important goods traded across the Sahara from West Africa.
What is Gold, Ivory, Salt or Enslaved Individuals?
400
What animal and travel technology made long-distance desert caravans more practical?
What is Camels and camel saddles, used with caravans
400
How did Mongol rule help revitalize the Silk Roads?
What is the Mongols improved and guarded routes, making travel and trade safer in many areas and encouraging exchange?
400
This temple, located in Cambodia, was influenced by what religion which had spread southeast through the Silk Roads?
What is Buddhism?
400
How could improved agricultural production contribute to the growth of cities?
What is more reliable or abundant food could support population growth, migration, and larger urban populations?
400
This Venetian merchant traveled along the Silk Roads to China, serving in the Mongol court and inspiring European interest in Asian goods through his writing.
What is Marco Polo?
500
Compare one geographic feature that shaped Indian Ocean trade with one that shaped trans-Saharan trade.
What is the Indian Ocean trade depended on sea routes and monsoon winds; trans-Saharan trade depended on desert travel and camel caravans.
500
Explain how technology and environmental knowledge worked together to expand trade.
Examples could include:
Using knowledge of monsoon wind patterns with lateen sails, stern rudders, compasses, and astrolabes
Camel adaptations and saddles helped desert travel.
500
Give one beneficial and one harmful consequence of Mongol expansion for Afro-Eurasia.
Beneficial: Trade and cultural exchange increased under Pax Mongolia.
Harmful: Conquest caused destruction, and connected routes helped disease such as bubonic plague spread.
500
Explain how trade could spread a religion without completely replacing local beliefs.
What is merchants and travelers carried religious ideas, but communities often blended new beliefs with local traditions or continued practicing existing religions?
500
Describe one environmental consequence and one population or disease consequence of increased connectivity.
Environmental: overgrazing, deforestation, or soil erosion.
Population/disease: crop diffusion could increase populations, while trade routes helped spread bubonic plague.
500
Explain one way trade helped spread Islam into Africa, South Asia, or Southeast Asia.
Merchants, travelers, and expanding states carried Islam along trade networks; it spread in places such as Swahili cities and Timbuktu and across South and Southeast Asia.