The Silk Roads
What major religion was mostly spread along the Silk Roads?
Buddhism
What two states benefiited the most from increased trade along the Indian Ocean Basin?
Swahili Coast
Malacca
What major religion was mostly spread by merchants along the Trans-Saharan trade network?
Islam
How did the Mongols promote trade and what trade route was primarily impacted by their rule?
Provided protection & unity on the Silk Road
What were the effects of the bubonic plague?
-Massive decrease in population
- Decline of serfdom
What places were at the TWO ends of the Silk Roads?
Europe and China
What THREE religion spread mostly through the Indian Ocean trade?
What animal helped facilitate trade along the Trans-Saharan Trade Route?
Camels!
How did the Mongols treat religions of the people they conquered?
Toleration
Papermaking & Gunpowder spread along the trade routes during this time period. What were the effects of their diffusion?
Papermaking-
Gunpowder-
What were TWO commercial technologies that increased trade on the Silk Roads?
Flying cash, paper money, baking houses, bills of exchange, caravanserai, etc
What environmental factor was the most significant for the success of Indian Ocean merchants?
Monsoon Winds
What empire benefitted the most from the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Mali
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/ East Europe
Chagatai Khanate- North of India
Yuan Dynasty- China
Scholars from this religion played a major role in preserving and spreading mathematical and scientific knowledge
Islamic scholars
Kashgar & Samarkand
What are THREE maritime technologies that increased trade on the Indian Ocean?
Stern rudder, astrolabe, lateen sail, magnetic compass, junk
What were TWO land-based technologies that improved transportation on the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Saddles, caravans, caravanserai
What were the effects of Mongol rule?
-Increased the circulation of goods
- Spread of religion
- Flow of Chinese technology to Europe
- Islamic scholars brought knowledge of science & mathematics east to China
- Greco-Islamic medical knowledge flowed into Europe
- spread of Black Death/ diseases
Who are THREE famous explorers and what routes did they explore?
Marco Polo- Silk Roads
Ibn Battuta- Trans- Saharan
Zheng He- Indian Ocean
Margery Kempe- Silk Road
At the end of the Silk Roads in northern Europe, Germanic and Scandanavian cities fromed this commerical trade alliance to protect the area from pirates.
Hanseatic League
What is the significance of Zheng He's maritime activities?
New Markets for Chinese goods and more cultural & technological transfers
What were THREE of the most prominent products traded on the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
Gold, Salt, Ivory and Slaves
This Central Asian script, originally used by a Turkic group, was adopted and modified by the Mongols to create their first official writing system under Genghis Khan.
Uyghur script
What is a diasporic community & name and example of one during 1200-1450.
A dispersion of people from their homeland.
Persians & Arabs in Eastern Asia
Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia