The Mediterranean
What type of navigation takes place far from the shore?
Open-Water Navigation
What country was home to the key port of Canton?
China
What are places where fertile soil and water are found in a desert?
Oases
What is the most famous overland trade route of the premodern times called?
The Silk Road
What were the two main Wheeled Vehicles at the time?
Carts and Wagons
What type of navigation involves sailing near land?
Coastal Navigation
What type of wind brings and takes wind away from a region?
Monsoon Winds
What place served as an avenue for Egypt and the southern half of Africa?
Nubia
Was overland transport or water transport harder and more time-consuming?
Overland Transport
What were used to transport large amounts of cargo across the land?
Domesticated Pack Animals
What are ships with oars and small square sails commonly used at the time called?
Galleys
What were small but vital communities of foreign traders called?
Diasporic Conmmunities
What port in the South served overland trade for those from the West of Africa?
Carthage
How long was the Silk Road?
Between 4000-5000 Miles Long
True or False: The camel was excellently suited for the Andes and other mountain transport.
False, it was the Llama
A nearly 200 year period of peace over seas to have a vast number of trade routes was called what?
Pax Romana
What were ships that were traditional and lateen made, used for trade and fishing called?
Dhows
What was a major part of the northbound trade, in the trans-Saharan trade network?
Slavery
What was the two most impacted things from transfer due to the Silk Roads?
Technology and Religion
What did Yokes and Collars do?
What is geographically the smallest of the major trading zones?
Mediterranean Sea
What were the sea lanes that connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia with China and Japan called?
The Indian Ocean Maritime Network
What extensive trade networks connected popular regions like Ghana and Mali with North Africa?
Trans-Saharan Caravan Routes
What was the economic hub of the Central Asian city-states along the Silk Road?
Chang'an
What most commonly used the Pack Saddles? (Animal, Place format)
Horsemen in Central Asia / Camel Riders in the Sahara and Arabia.