Trade Routes
Route that expands across Asia to Mediterranean basin
What is The Silk Road
This West African city served as both a center of trade and learning during the medieval period.
What is Timbuktu
This Aztec city, built on an island in Lake Texcoco, served as the capital of a vast empire in the Valley of Mexico.
What is Tenochtitlan
The Umayyad family moved the Muslim capital from Mecca to this Syrian city to make controlling conquered territories easier.
What is Damascus
These two rivers were essential to Indian civilization because they provided both water and fertile soil for agriculture and settlement.
What are the the Indus and the Ganges
Known for sea and river commerce linking the Black Sea to the Baltic, this Northern European network traded textiles and Baltic amber.
What is The Amber Road
This East African kingdom practiced Christianity and replaced Kush as the major trading civilization in the region.
What is The Kingdom of Aksum
The Inca built these agricultural structures on mountainsides throughout the Andes to maximize farmable land in difficult terrain.
What are agricultural terraces, known as andenes
The Umayyad Caliphate made this language the official language of the empire, which facilitated both trade and the spread of Islam across vast territories.
What is Arabic
This Mauryan emperor conquered rival kingdoms in northern India and established a centralized, unified government, though he was known for ruling harshly with a brutal secret police force.
Who is advisor Kautilya
This overland-and-sea network in North Africa was famous for exchanging gold and salt, along with the spread of Islam.
What is The Trans-Saharan trade network
Gold and salt were the most important commodities traded along this trans-African route connecting West Africa to North Africa.
What is The Trans-Saharan trade route
The Inca constructed this extensive network of mountain roads to connect their vast empire, facilitate trade, and enable rapid communication through messengers known as "chasqui."
What is Qhapaq Ñan
The Abbasid Caliphate took power in 750 and moved their capital to this city, which the document emphasizes was geographically important because it served as a center of trade routes.
What is Baghdad
The Mauryan Empire built good roads that enabled trade to flourish and established these two types of free institutions to serve the population's health and welfare needs.
What are
These innovations spread via specific routes: the compass, the lateen sail, paper money, and waterwheels/windmills.
What is The Compass, The Lateen Sail, Paper Money, Waterwheels/Windmills
These three West African kingdoms flourished along or near the Niger River and benefited from the trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt.
What is Ghana Empire, Mali Empire, and Songhai Empire
This Mayan writing system used a combination of symbols and glyphs and allowed them to record astronomical observations and historical events.
What is Maya script or hieroglyphs
Islamic scholars developed these number symbols during the Islamic Golden Age, which revolutionized mathematics and are still used throughout the world today.
What are Hindu-Arabic numerals
This grandson of Chandragupta Maurya converted to Buddhism, rejected his family's harsh rule, and chose instead to govern by moral example while remaining tolerant of other beliefs throughout the empire.
Who is Ashoka the Great
This region accessed spices, textiles, and new navigation tools because it linked to and received goods from all major routes.
What is The Indian Ocean region
This South African city was the capital of a prosperous empire whose wealth and power were built on its strategic location near the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers and the Indian Ocean coast.
What is Mapungubwe
The Maya developed this mathematical concept—the idea of "nothing"—which allowed them to perform complex calculations and advance their knowledge of astronomy to predict celestial events and refine their calendar.
What is vigesimal (base-20) number system
This military defeat halted the spread of Islam into Europe beyond the Iberian Peninsula, and the later fall of Baghdad marked the end of the Islamic Golden Age.
What is The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
The Gupta Dynasty presided over India's Golden Age by actively promoting this religion, while simultaneously advancing mathematics with the concept of zero and astronomy by confirming that the Earth has this shape.
What is spherical or round shape