Silk Road
These luxury goods were in high demand on the Silk Road. (Lots of answers, only have to give three)
What were porcelain, salt, sugar, spices, iron, steel, textiles?
Seasonal winds that occur within the Indian ocean that sailors began to predict and use to their advantage.
What are Monsoon winds?
This innovation allowed for a certain animal to be ridden and loaded with trade goods.
What was the camel saddle?
This group of nomadic warriors was one of the most powerful states in Eurasia.
Who were the Mongols?
These crops diffused due to networks of exchange in Asia between 1200-1450.
What were bananas, Champa rice, lemons, sour oranges, and other citrus fruits?
Goods transported along the Silk Road using these things.
What were caravans, caravanserai?
These two things are examples of technology spread throughout the Indian Ocean that aided sailors in Maritime navigation.
What was the Astrolabe/Compass?
This person spread wealth and Islam throughout Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The Mongol Empire saw significant expansion under this famous leader.
Who was Ghengis Khan?
This religion that started in India quickly spread into East Asia.
What was Buddhism?
Merchants bought imported goods without dealing with having to carry an expensive medium of exchange using this slip of paper.
What are bills of exchange?
The Malay peoples traded extensively with ______ and ______ which led to the incorporation of Buddhist and Confucianist political practices into their own customs.
Who were the Indian/Chinese?
For this reason, Timbuktu was a very important city (2 possible answers)
What is its economic relevance?/What is its religious prominence?
The Mongol Empire had significant control over this major trade route.
What was the Silk Road?
Religious authorities wouldn’t allow people to use _____ for Islamic texts.
What is a printing press?
This empire introduced paper money/currency.
Who were the Chinese?
Mecca was important for this reason.
Where was Muhammed born? What is an important place of pilgrimage?
The safety of merchants through the African deserts was assured by this type of group.
What are caravans?
The Mongol Empire instated this Chinese dynasty in 1271.
What was the Yuan Dynasty?
This was a social consequence of the Black Plague.
What was increased social mobility for peasants in Europe and pogroms of minorities in Europe?
The Silk Road caused the growth of new cities such as ____ and ____.
What were Kashgar and Samarkand?
The religion and languages of the Swahili coasts were greatly influenced by ___________ merchants. While transportation technological advances such as ______ ships and some products they produced for trade such as slaves gold and silver, which they traded for other things such as cloth with the ______Coast helped the Swahili coasts to expand and grow.
Who were the Arab & Persian? What was Dhow? What was the Gujarat or Malabar?
The Mali empire obtained large amounts of wealth through this method.
What is taxing trade?
The Mongol Empire expanded these three main things (there a more than three right answers).
What was trade, religion, disease, technology, western ideas east, eastern ideas west, etc?
The exchange of goods encouraged the development of new innovations in this way.
What was increased trade between regions increasing interactions between people, diffusing cultural and technological knowledge. (examples include gunpowder, paper (in the battle of Talas), caravanserai, astrolabes, silk production techniques, etc.)