Migration
The opportunity for employment in Trinidad and Tobago for Indian migrants
What is a pull factor?
The Han dynasty and Roman Empire helped to forge this important trade route
Who started the Silk Road?
As many as 100 million people died across AfroEurasia during the 1300s as a result of this event.
What was the Black Death?
The demand for labor on plantations for sugar production
What caused the transatlantic slave trade?
Poor economic conditions that forced people from South Asia to migrate to different parts of the British Empire
What is a push factor?
Silk, pottery, and spices are some of examples of these items.
What were items traded on the Silk Road?
It focuses on how the environment and society connect to understand how diseases spread
What is medical geography?
12.5 million Africans were shipped to plantations
What was the amount of Africans sent on the transatlantic slave trade?
The spouses of Indian migrants who traveled to settle with their husbands of their own free will
What is voluntary migration?
This ruling government in China was known for its use of silk in trade and diplomacy
Who was the Song dynasty?
Medical geographers help us to discover existing patterns for disease spread and to prevent future outbreaks
Why are medical geographers important?
Farming, trading, and fishing were what Africans did in Ghana before the rise of the slave trade.
What did the Africans in Ghana do for a living?
Indians and their descendants who were expelled from their homes in East Africa and forced to travel to other places
What are refugees?
Trading networks expanded and more ideas traveled through the Silk Road under the largest land empire in the world.
Who was the Mongol Empire?
This term for Mongol rule defines how trade flourished but would also lead to disease
What was the Pax Mongolica?
Twice as many female slaves than male slaves went from Africa to the Muslim world.
What was the Pre-Columbian slave trade?
A community of an ethnic group or people who are connected to each other world
What is a diaspora?
Women of all ages were the main ones depicted in this famous set of images
What were the pictures of Tilling and Weaving?
The demand for higher wages and a higher standard of living was one result
What was a consequence of the Black Plague?
This was a dungeon for holding slaves by the British in what is today the country of Ghana.
What was the Cape Coast Castle?