Silk Roads
This roadside inn gave merchants and animals a place to rest along overland trade routes.
What is a caravanserai?
Temüjin took this title after uniting the Mongol tribes in 1206.
Who is Genghis Khan?
Merchants relied on these predictable seasonal wind patterns to plan their voyages.
What are monsoon winds?
This animal made long-distance commerce across the Sahara possible on a large scale.
What is the camel?
This term means the spread of beliefs, ideas, technologies, and customs between societies.
What is cultural diffusion?
This demand helped drive the expansion of Silk Road trade after c. 1200.
What is demand for luxury goods?
The Mongols created the largest empire of this type in history.
What is a land-based empire?
Name ONE maritime technology that made Indian Ocean trade easier.
What is the dhow, lateen sail, astrolabe, magnetic compass, junk, or stern rudder?
This innovation improved merchants' ability to control camels and carry heavy goods across the Sahara.
What is the camel saddle?
This religion spread widely through merchants and trade networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean world.
What is Islam?
Identify ONE similarity shared by the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Trans-Saharan trade networks.
All moved goods and people and encouraged cultural exchange. All also used technologies or institutions that supported long-distance trade.
This term describes the period of relative stability that encouraged Eurasian trade under Mongol rule.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
This Southeast Asian port became wealthy by controlling a narrow strait and taxing trade.
What is Malacca?
These TWO commodities were especially important to West African Trans-Saharan commerce.
What are gold and salt?
This disease spread across increasingly connected Eurasian trade routes during the fourteenth century.
What is the Bubonic Plague/Black Death?
This development allowed merchants to trade without always carrying large amounts of metal currency.
What are credit, bills of exchange, or banking systems?
After succession struggles, the Mongol Empire divided into these separately governed regions.
What are khanates?
These communities formed when merchants settled away from their homelands and helped spread their cultures.
What are diasporic merchant communities?
This Mali ruler's 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca displayed West Africa's enormous wealth to the wider Islamic world.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Which TWO overland networks used caravans as a major method of transportation?
What are the Silk Roads and Trans-Saharan trade routes?
Explain ONE way Mongol rule contributed to the expansion of Silk Road trade.
Mongol control made routes safer, improved roads, reopened routes, and encouraged merchants to travel across Eurasia.
Explain ONE way Mongol rule increased cultural or intellectual exchange across Eurasia.
Safer connections allowed knowledge, technology, medicine, mathematics, travelers, and ideas to move across Eurasia.
Explain ONE cultural effect of Indian Ocean trade on East Africa.
Islamic and African traditions blended in Swahili city-states, contributing to the spread of Islam, language, architecture, and other cultural traditions.
Explain ONE way Trans-Saharan trade strengthened the Mali Empire.
Trade and taxation brought Mali wealth that could support armies, government officials, cities, building projects, and Islamic learning.
Arab and Persian merchants settled in East African trading cities and combined elements of their culture with local African traditions. This development best demonstrates what consequence of increased connectivity?
What is cultural blending through diasporic communities?