Silk Roads
These routes connected East Asia to Europe.
What are the Silk Roads?
This environmental factor made trade across the Indian Ocean more predictable and reliable.
What are monsoon winds?
This animal made desert trade possible?
What is the camel?
This disease spread along trade routes in the 14th century.
What is Black Death (the Plague)?
This empire increased trade security across Eurasia.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This Chinese dynasty expanded trade and commercial production.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This technology helped sailors determine latitude.
What is the astrolabe?
This empire controlled gold trade in West Africa.
What is the Mali Empire?
Increased trade across Afro-Eurasia led to the spread of religions, technologies, and ideas, a process known as this.
What is cultural diffusion?
After the death of Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire was divided into these four regional political units.
What are Mongol khanates?
These facilities provided lodging and protection for merchants.
What are caravanserai?
This Muslim admiral traveled on behalf of the Ming Dynasty to Indonesia, Ceylon, Arabia, the east coast of Africa and other coastal areas on the Indian Ocean.
Who is Zheng He?
This religion spread through trade in West Africa.
What is Islam?
This Chinese innovation later adopted by the Islamic world and Europe transformed record-keeping and learning.
What is paper?
This Chinese admiral led Indian Ocean voyages.
Who is Zheng He?
This type of good dominated Silk Road trade.
What are luxury goods?
This East African coast blended African and Islamic culture.
What is the Swahili Coast?
This ruler's pilgrimage demonstrated wealth and devotion.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This traveler documented extensive journeys across Afro-Eurasia.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This European traveler wrote about Asia under Mongol rule.
Who is Marco Polo?
Explain ONE way the expansion of the Silk Roads affected states or societies in Afro-Eurasia between 1200 and 1450.
What is increased wealth, cultural diffusion, state revenue from trade, or the spread of ideas and technologies?
Explain how Indian Ocean trade differed from Silk Road trade in terms of transportation or goods exchanged.
What is sea-based trade carrying bulk goods versus land-based trade focused on luxury goods?
Explain how trade affected political power in West Africa.
What is control of trade increased wealth and state authority?
Explain ONE environmental consequence of trade networks.
What is disease diffusion or crop transfer?
The increased cultural diffusion and economic exchange across Eurasia during Mongol rule is often attributed to this period of enforced stability.
Pax Mongolica