Growth
Mariners learning how to ride these helped the tempo of Indian Ocean Commerce pickup.
What are monsoons?
The two Chinese dynasties that made China very successful and increase Indian Ocean trade commerce.
What are the Tang and Song Dynasties?
What is the Arab Empire?
These three religions/ways of life spread to places such as Axum, southern India, and Southeast Asia, showing Indian trade's cultural impact.
Hint: AXUM and INDIA
What are Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism?
These technological innovations helped increase Indian Ocean trade.
Hint: They all helped sailors easily navigate the ocean.
What are the development of sails, ships, latitude calculations, and compasses?
This direction that the Chinese people shifted to expanded maritime trade DOWNWARDS.
What is southward?
Unlike this Chinese philosophy, Islam was very adaptable and could be used by people of many cultures.
Hint: This philosophy emphasized having good morals and leaders being good role models to their subjects.
What is Confucianism?
This region's barren wasteland gained renewed interest when people started growing sugar and dates.
Hint: One of the first civilizations we learned about (a theory as to their collapse is deforestation and soil erosion)
What is Mesopotamia?
These two first-wave civilizations were two of the first to use seaborne trade methods in the Persian Gulf.
Hint: They are two of the first European/African civilizations we learned about
What are Mesopotamia and Egypt?
These technological Chinese innovations expanded Indian Ocean trade.
Hint: They improved upon 2 of 4 previously established technologies.
What are large ships and magnetic compasses?
Islam brought this type of unity to the Arab Empire.
Hint: The Arab Empire was a THEOCRACY
What is political unity?
This practice was used in Mesopotamia to grow sugar and dates; its people revolted because of horrible conditions but were put down by the Islamic empire.
What is slavery?