Mongols & China
This Chinese dynasty ruled before the Mongol conquest and is associated with major economic growth and innovations such as improved agriculture (#CHAMPARICE)
What is the Song Dynasty?
This trade network connected East Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, and China.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade network?
This religion spread along Indian Ocean trade routes and established communities as far as China.
What is Islam?
This city in the Mali Empire was home to the famous Sankore Mosque and Madrasa, an important center of Islamic learning.
What is Timbuktu?
Cause: Champa rice was introduced into China.
What is increased agricultural production and population growth?
The Yuan government promoted this lightweight form of currency, making large commercial transactions easier across China.
What is paper money?
Indian Ocean sailors relied on knowledge of these seasonal winds to plan their voyages.
What are monsoon winds?
This Chinese philosophy emphasized hierarchy, filial piety, and proper relationships between people.
What is Confucianism?
After the Black Death created severe labor shortages in Europe, workers demanded higher wages and sometimes participated in this form of rural unrest.
What are peasant revolts?
Cause: Mongols controlled large portions of Eurasia.
What is increased/reinvigorated trans-Eurasian trade?
When Yuan rulers printed excessive amounts of paper currency, the currency lost value and contributed to this economic problem.
What is inflation or hyperinflation?
This African region became wealthy by exporting gold north across the desert while importing goods such as salt.
What is the Trans-Saharan trade network?
In many Islamic states, Jews and Christians could practice their religions but paid special taxes and faced certain restrictions. This policy is best described as this.
What is limited religious tolerance or dhimmi status?
This epidemic spread along the trade routes of Afro-Eurasia, hit urban areas particularly hard, and contributed to the decline of many cities.
What is the Bubonic Plague (or Black Death)?
Cause: Indian Ocean merchants learned to predict monsoon winds.
What is more predictable and extensive maritime trade?
The Mongols helped facilitate this by protecting routes and connecting East Asia with Europe.
What is the Silk Road trade?
These roadside inns provided merchants traveling overland with places to rest and protect their goods.
What are caravanserai?
The spread of Islam along Indian Ocean trade routes had this effect on existing trade networks.
What is the expansion and intensification of existing commerce?
Compared with the Chinese labor systems used in China, European labor systems were more likely to rely on this system in which agricultural workers were tied to the land.
What is serfdom?
Cause: Trade networks connected increasingly distant regions.
What is the spread of religions technologies, crops, and diseases?
This Mongol policy helped the Yuan govern a culturally diverse empire by allowing different religious traditions to practice relatively freely.
What is religious tolerance?
AP CHALLENGE: On your whiteboards, explain one way the spread of Islam affected trade on the Indian Ocean.
- expanded and intensified existing trade networks
Muslim merchants who settled in an Asian port, maintained their religious traditions, and adapted to local society formed this type of community.
What is diasporic merchant community?
A medical work written in Arabic, translated by a Jewish scholar, and studied by Christian Europeans illustrates this effect of Afro-Eurasian exchange.
What is the cross-cultural diffusion of scientific or medical knowledge?
Put these developments in a logical sequence.
Mongol expansion -> ______ -> _____ -> increased interaction across Eurasia.
Mongol expansion -> political unification/protection of trade routes-> increased Silk Road trade -> increased interaction across Eurasia.