Trade Routes
Why did cultural diffusion and syncretism occur to a greater extent in the Indian Ocean Complex than on the Silk Roads. (1:30 mins)
Exemplar Answer:
The Indian Ocean Complex was a maritime route dependent on seasonal monsoon winds to determine good travel times. Merchants had to stay in the same place for longer and experience local cultures.
What makes a belief system “monotheistic”?
The worship of a single god
The development of this luxury product created the most important trade route in Eurasia.
Silk
The richest man in the world, alive or dead.
Mansa Musa
The most common tactic used to expand empires in the post-classical era.
War
The birth of the language Swahili, spoken along the eastern coast of Africa, is a result of syncretism caused by this trade route.
Bonus: Swahili is a combination of these three languages that have become "Bantuized"
Indian Ocean Network
Bonus: Persian, Arabic, Hindi
After the death of their philosophical leader, this belief system broke into several sects some of whom began to worship their leader as a god.
(Mahayana & Theravada) Buddhism
Paper and book binding come out of this post-classical Chinese Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty (618 C.E. - 906 C.E.)
Bilal ibn Rabah, the first Muezzin and closest companion to the Prophet Muhammad, is from what East African country?
Ethiopia
How was Ibn Battuta able to safely "travel" to so many different places? (1:30 mins)
Exemplar Answer:
The Islamic Caliphates of the Middle East used taxation, war, and conversion as tactics to conquer regions in Afro-Eurasia making it safe for Muslim travelers to get around.
The acquisition of this trade route helped the Mongol civilization rapidly conquer most of Asia and parts of Europe.
The Silk Roads
This religious philosophy, an example of syncretism, derived from Confucianism in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism.
Neo-Confucianism
These three Asian civilizations were deeply influenced by Chinese art, religion, science, math, and politics.
Korea, Japan, Vietnam
The leader of the Songhai Empire.
Sunni Ali
As a result of Mongol rule, trade along the Silk Roads was stabilized by eased communication and unified administrations. This period is called?
Pax Mongolica
Name three cultural products and/or goods exported from India.
Acceptable Answers:
Buddhism, cotton, timber, ivory, the discovery of the number zero, developments in astronomy.
The House of Wisdom was created by this major Islamic Caliphate.
The Abbasid Dynasty
From Latin Sina meaning “China”, is a process whereby non-Chinese societies come under the influence of Chinese culture, particularly Han Chinese culture, language, societal norms, and ethnic identity.
Sinicization
Name three items exported from North and West Africa.
Acceptable Answers:
gold, incense, copper, tin, medicine, perfume, timber, wine, people, olive oil, glass, Islam
The Mongol Empire and the Islamic Caliphates have this trait in common. (1:30 mins)
Acceptable Answers:
They used harsh war tactics to conquer civilizations, they care about cultivating and spreading knowledge, they created multicultural societies, they allowed people to practice whatever religion they wanted
Mansa Musa built one of the greatest civilizations on this trade route known for its gold-salt trade.
Bonus: Why is salt so important to trade?
The Trans Saharan Trade Routes
Because it is used to preserve food.
The Pilgrimage, The Fast, The Support of the Needy...name the two other pillars.
The Testimony of Faith, The Prayer
The resurgence of Confucianism in this dynasty led to a culture that valued feminine qualities which emphasized women’s weakness and delicateness, for example, the beauty practice of foot binding.
the Song Dynasty (960 C.E. - 1279 C.E.)
This was a major city was annexed by Mansa Musa and considered a center for trade, Islam and education.
Timbuktu
This Chinese system was a set of practices, including gift-giving, that required non-Chinese authorities to acknowledge Chinese superiority and their own lesser place in a Chinese centered world.
the tribute system