The Silk Roads
What major religion was mostly spread along the Silk Roads?
Buddhism
What two states benefiited the most from increased trade along the Indian Ocean Basin?
Swahili Coast
Malacca
What major religion was mostly spread by merchants along the Trans-Saharan trade network?
Islam
How did the Mongols promote trade and what trade route was primarily impacted by their rule?
Provided protection & unity on the Silk Road
What environmental factor was the most significant for the success of Indian Ocean merchants?
Monsoon Winds
What places were at the TWO ends of the Silk Roads?
Europe and China
What THREE religion spread mostly through the Indian Ocean trade?
What were TWO land-based technologies that improved transportation on the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Saddles, caravans, caravanserai
How did the Mongols treat religions of the people they conquered?
Toleration
What is a diasporic community & name and example of one during 1200-1450.
A dispersion of people from their homeland.
Persians & Arabs in Eastern Asia
Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia
What were TWO commercial technologies that increased trade on the Silk Roads?
Flying cash, paper money, baking houses, bills of exchange
What was ONE of the most prominent products traded out of India on the Indian Ocean trade routes?
Textiles, cotton, peppers, spices, pearls
What empire benefitted the most from the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Mali
What were TWO of the empires the Mongols split into after the death of Genghis Khan AND where were they located?
Ilkhan Empire- Middle East
Golden Horde- Central Asia/ East Europe
Chagatai Khanate- North of India
Yuan Dynasty- China
Scholars from this religion played a major role in preserving and spreading mathematical and scientific knowledge
Islamic scholars
What are THREE of the most prominent products coming from China on the Silk Road?
Silk, Porcelain, Paper, Gunpowder, etc.
What are THREE maritime technologies that increased trade on the Indian Ocean?
Stern rudder, astrolabe, lateen sail, magnetic compass, junk
*Fun*
What President was assassinated today?
John F. Kennedy
Name two empires the Mongols successfully invaded.
Jin Dynasty
Abbasid Caliphate
Who are THREE famous explorers and what routes did they explore?
Marco Polo- Silk Roads
Ibn Battuta- Trans- Saharan
Zheng He- Indian Ocean
Margery Kempe- Silk Road
At the end of the Silk Roads in northern Europe, Germanic and Scandanavian cities fromed this commerical trade alliance to protect the area from pirates.
Hanseatic League
What is the siignificance of Zheng He's maritime activities?
What were THREE of the most prominent products traded on the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
Goold, Salt, Ivory and Slaves
What group in China brought an end to the Mongols and what was the name of the new dynasty they formed?
White Lotus Society & Ming Dynasty
Most deadly disease that led to a massive decline in urban populations
Bubonic plague