Trade Routes: 1200-1450

Astrolabe

________- allowed sailors to calculate latitude.

Cities

________ grew because of trade, became centers of commerce and education.

Magnetic compass

Inventions: ________- allowed sailors to hold their bearing w /o seeing the sun.

Empires

________ help look over trade: police and military forces keep people safe + legal systems established in case of a dispute in a contract or trade.

Land

________ based (desert); North Africa + Sub- Saharan Africa.

Arabian Camel

Trade increased because of: ________ (could walk up to 10 days w /o water)

Goods

Luxury (valuable) ________ because of limited space: silk, china, iron, porcelain. ________ became more expensive as they traveled further along the silk road, price rises.

Religions

Similarities: Trade routes caused the increase of new trading cities. ________ spread through the trade networks beyond their original homelands.

Diseases

________ traveled across the silk road (bubonic plague, measles, smallpox)

Credit System

________- well known merchants were able to buy things on credit + pay back later-> led to quicker + more efficient trade.

Trade Routes

________: 1200- 1450.

Trade routes

Similarities: ________ caused the increase of new trading cities.