Silk Roads
What kind of goods were traded along the Silk Roads?
Luxury Goods, Silk, Spices, etc.
What kind of people were the Mongols?
Steppe or Pastoral peoples
What is an example of a maritime technology that facilitated trade along the Indian Ocean?
Compass, Astrolabe, Lateen Sails, Rudders, and Dhow
What were the main products were traded in the Trans-Saharan trade?
Salt and Gold
What was a major factor in the growth of urban centers and cities during the period 800-1350
Increased interregional commerce
What animal were important for the Silk Road trade?
Camels
What is an example of a state that collapsed in East Asia due to the Mongol invasion?
Song China
What kind of weather patterns facilitated the Indian Ocean trade?
Monsoons
What was a commercial innovation important for Trans-Saharan Trade?
Caravans and Caravanserai
What was a major factor in the decline of cities and urban centers in the period 1200-1450
Mongol Conquests and the Bubonic Plague
What is an effect the Mongol Empire had on the Silk Roads?
Increased trade because the conquests helped connect more regions of Eurasia economically and commercially, decreased bandit attacks, and reduced the number of local rulers collecting tribute
Why was it difficult for a unified Mongol Empire to exist?
Traible and personal loyalties made it difficult to create a stable Mongol Dynasty
What was a feature at many port cities in the Indian Ocean?
Diasporic Communities of Muslim Arab and Persian merchants
What allowed for the development of the Trans-Saharan networks of exchange?
What empire increased global integration in Afro-Eurasia in the period 1200-1450?
the Mongol Empire
What kind of technological innovations spread with the Mongol invasions?
Chinese innovations like gunpowder
What did the Mongols and the Mongol Khanates portray themselves as?
Protectors of Commerce
Why did the Chinese government’s decision to stop voyages of exploration in the Indian Ocean in the early fifteenth century?
Government concern with domestic problems and frontier security
What state formation facilitated an increase in trade along the Trans-Sahara?
Ghana, Mali, and later Songhai
Which regions were most affected by the Mongol invasions?
Middle East and Central Asia
What are commercial innovations that facilitated and increased trade along the Silk Roads?
Flying Cash, Credit, Banking Houses, and money economies
What people did the Yuan Dynasty use to staff their bureaucracy?
Turks, Uygurs, Persians, Arabs, and other non-East Asian peoples.
What is a state that dominated important straits in the Indian Ocean?
Malacca or Srivajja
Why did Islam spread to West Africa and Southeast Asia?
What was an economic effect the Bubonic plague had on Europe?
Decline of serfdom