The Silk Roads
Indian Ocean Trade Network
Trans-Saharan
The Mongols
100
What major religion was mostly spread by merchants along the Silk Roads?
Buddhism
100
What was ONE of the most prominent products traded out of India on the Indian Ocean trade routes (can't say spices)?
Textiles, Cotton, Gems, black pepper
100
What major religion was spread by merchants along the Trans-Saharan trade network?
Islam
100
What historical phrase refers to the era of peace due to the large areas under Mongol control, a time when world trade was flourishing?
Pax Mongolica
200
The Silk Roads connected which two regions?
Europe and East Asia (esp. China)
200
The islands of modern day Malaysia and Indonesia got this nickname because of their most precious commodity.
Spice Islands
200
The Trans-Saharan Trade routes mainly connected these two regions.
West Africa, Middle East
200
How did the Mongols treat the religions of the people they conquered?
Toleration
300
What were TWO commercial technologies that increased trade on the Silk Roads?
Flying Cash, Paper Money, Banking Houses, Bills of Exchange (Credit)
300
What are THREE maritime technologies that increased trade on the Indian Ocean?
Stern Rudder, Lateen Sail, Junk, Dhow, Astrolabe
300
What were TWO land-based technologies/innovations that improved transportation on the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Camel saddles, Caravans, Caravanserai
300
This trade route was the one primarily affected by Mongolian rule.
Silk Road
400
What were THREE of the most prominent products coming from China on the Silk Roads (besides silk)?
Tea, Rice, Gunpowder, Porcelain, Paper
400
These communities were established along the trade routes and were made up of merchants who settled in the area in which they did business.
Diasporic communities
400
Cluster of city-states that actively participated in Indian Ocean trade along the East coast of the African continent
Swahili City States
400
The Mongol dynasty in China was the...
Yuan Dynasty
500
At the end of the Silk Roads in northern Europe, Germanic and Scandinavian cities formed this commercial trade alliance to protect the area from pirates.
Hanseatic League
500
What were FOUR areas/regions connected by the Indian Ocean trade?
East Africa to Middle East to India to Southeast Asia to China
500
What were THREE of the most prominent products traded on the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
Gold, Salt, Ivory, and Enslaved people
500
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)