AP World History: Unit 2 Study Guide

Explain the various factors that led to the growth of the Silk Road trade networks in the 1200 - 1450 time period

Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade, and expanded the geographical range of existing and newly active trade networks.

What luxury goods were often traded along the Silk Roads?

silk and cotton textiles, porcelain, spices, slaves, precious metals/gems

What transportation technologies facilitated trade along the Silk Roads?

Camel saddles, compasses, larger ships, and astrolabe

What commercial technology facilitated trade along the Silk Roads?

Bills of exchange, credit, checks, banking houses

Explain how the Mongol Khanates developed

They developed by conquering and killing other regions throughout Afroeurasia

Explain how the Mongol Khanates facilitated trade in Afro-Eurasia

new people were drawn into their conquerors' economies and trade networks

Describe some of the cultural transfers that resulted from the Mongol khanates

Mongols who took over Persia converted to Islamic religion

Explain the various factors that led to the growth of the Indian Ocean trade networks in the 1200 - 1450 time period

Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade, and expanded the geographical range of existing and newly active trade networks.

What technologies facilitated trade in the Indian Ocean during the 1200-1450 time period?

Camel saddles, compasses, larger ships, and astrolabe, bills of exchange, credit, checks, banking houses

Explain the impact that Indian Ocean trade had on the Swahili city-states

improved the growth of powerful trading cities and made them more wealthier

How did the Indian Ocean trade networks spread culture throughout the region?

Merchants set up diasporic communities where they shared their religions with others, and in turn, shared religions with the merchants

Describe a diasporic community that resulted from the Indian Ocean trade

Malay communities in the Indian Ocean basin

What role did (specific) environmental factors play in the development of the Indian Ocean trade network?

They used the Monsoon winds to their advantage and this made trade much easier for them to get from one place to another in the Indian Basin

Explain the various factors that led to the growth of the Trans-Saharan trade networks in the 1200 - 1450 time period

Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade, and expanded the geographical range of existing and newly active trade networks.

What effects did this trade route have on the African continent (and beyond)?

Encouraged by existing transportation technologies for the desert

What technologies facilitated trade along the trans-Saharan trade networks?

Camel Saddle and caravans

Explain the connection between Mali in West Africa and trade and communication

Made Afro-Eurasian trade and communication easier as new people were drawn into the economies and trade networks

Give a few examples of cultural transfers that occurred as a result of trade networks in the 1200-1450 time period

The influence of Buddhism in East Asia

Give examples of the diffusion of scientific/technological innovations that occurred as a result of trade networks in the 1200-1450 time period

Gunpowder from China

Describe some positive environmental effects of the various networks of exchange from c. 1200 to 1450

Lots of bananas, rice, and citruses were traveled along the trade routes while the disease was spreading

Describe some negative environmental effects of the various networks of exchange from c. 1200 to 1450

The black death occured, killing hundreds and hundreds of people all over the trade routes