🐛The Silk Roads 🐛
What major religion was mostly spread along the Silk Roads?
Buddhism
What was ONE of the most prominant products traded out of India on the Indian Ocean trade routes?
Textiles, Cotton, Peppers, Spices, Pearls
What major religion was mostly spread by merchants along the Trans-Saharan trade network?
Islam
What historical phrase refers to the era of Mongolian peace, a time when world trade was flourishing?
Pax Mongolica
Scholars from this religion played a major role in preserving and spreading mathematical and scientific knowledge.
Islamic Scholars
Name one EMPIRE from the following places during the period 1200-1450: West Africa, Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia
West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai / Middle East: Abbasids and Ilkhan Empire / South Asia: Delhi Sultanate and Chagatai Khanate / East Asia: Song, Mongol, Yuan, Ming
What places were at the TWO ends of the Silk Roads?
Europe and China
Where are TWO places Islam spread to due to trade on the Indian Ocean?
India, Southeast Asia, and China
What region was the Trans-Saharan empire located in and what is one empire that directly benefited from it?
North and West Africa; Mali, Ghana, Songhai
How did the Mongols treat the religions of the people they conquered?
Toleration
A dispersion of people from their homeland. At this time period, it was mostly merchant communities of Muslims in India and Southeast Asia
Diaspora
What disease led to a massive decline in the urban populations?
Bubonic Plague
What were TWO commercial technologies that increased trade on the Silk Roads?
Flying Cash, Paper Money, Banking Houses, Bills of Exchange (Credit)
The islands of modern day Malaysia and Indonesia got this nickname because of their most precious commodity.
Spice Islands
What were TWO land-based technologies that improved transportation on the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Saddles, Caravans, Camels, Caravanserai
How did the Mongols promote trade and what trade route was primarily impacted by their rule?
Provided protection on the Silk Road
What THREE relgions spread mostly through the Indian Ocean trade?
Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
What is one major crop that spread as a result of increased global trade?
Bananas, Champa Rice, Sugar, Citrus, Yams
What were THREE of the most prominent products coming from China on the Silk Roads (besides silk)?
Tea, Rice, Gunpowder, Porcelain, Paper
What are THREE maritime technologies that increased trade on the Indian Ocean?
Stern Rudder, Lateen Sail, Astrolabe, Magnetic Compass, Junk, Dhow
Cluster of city states that actively participated in Indian Ocean trade along the East coast of the African continent
Swahili City States
What group in China brought an end to the Mongols and what was the name of the new dynasty they formed?
White Lotus Society and Ming Dynasty
What is one benefit and one consequence of the European Crusades?
Benefit is that it increased European knowledge of other cultures and scientific progress. Consequence is the spread of bubonic plague (although it mostly came from Mongol trade routes from fleas on rats).
What environmental factor was the most significant for the success of Indian Ocean merchants?
Monsoon Winds
At the end of the Silk Roads in northern Europe, Germanic and Scandanavian cities formed this commerical trade alliance to protect the area from pirates.
Hanseatic League
What were FOUR areas connected by the Indian Ocean trade?
East Africa to Middle East to India to Southeast Asia to China
What were THREE of the most prominent products traded on the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
Gold, Salt, Ivory and Slaves
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), Chagatai Khanate (North of India), and Yuan Dynasty (China)
Who are THREE famous explorers and what routes did they explore?
Marco Polo (Silk Roads), Ibn Battuta (Trans-Saharan), and Zheng He (Indian Ocean)
What pushed the Mongols out of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and into Song China?
The worsening arid climate and a desire for the wealth of the increasingly commercialized Chinese economy under the Song Dynasty