Cultural Diffusion
What goods were spread from Europe?
What word zone includes present-day North and South America?
The Americas
A network of trade routes that connected Eastern China to the Mediterranean Sea.
Silk Roads
How did the Kushan Empire make money during the Silk Road Era?
Tool Booth - Collected Taxes
When did silk cultivation begin in China?
c. 4000 BCE.
What good were spread from India?
Spices, Buddhism
What world zone includes present-day Australia and South Asian Islands?
Australasia
Means "Before Common Era," used to identify years before the Christian Era.
BCE.
How did the Parthian Empire make money during the Silk Road Era?
Middlemen - Buy Low, Sell High.
When did the Roman Empire Begin?
When did it collapse?
27 BCE
c. 400 CE
What goods were spread from Africa?
What world zone includes the Pacific Islands?
The Pacific
The most common notation system for calendars, used to identify a year.
Common Era (CE)
Why did the (second) Silk Road Era end?
Empires Collapsed; Sea Trade Expanded.
When did the First Silk Road Era take place?
50 BCE - 250 CE
What goods came from Central Asia?
Ferghana Horses
What world zone includes present-day Africa, Europe, and Asia?
Afro-Eurasia
A community whose economy is based on farming and growing crops.
Agrarian
What happens when conflict breaks out between Empires?
Trade is interrupted.
When did the Second Silk Road Era take place?
700 CE - 1200 CE.
What goods were spread from China?
Silk, Iron, Bronze, Cermaics, Orange Trees, Paper, Gunpowder.
What were the four stable empires in Afro-Eurasia at the time of the Silk Road?
Han Empire, Kushan Empire, Parthian Empire, Roman Empire.
The practical application of knowledge; specifically using tools to improve life.
Technology
What two common goods/ideas came from the Silk Road?
Mathematics; Spaghetti.
When was the Religion of Islam born?