Unit 2: Networks of Exchange Exam Study Guide

AP World History Exam Unit 2

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

An increase in innovations and improved commercial practices and the revival of old routes and creation of new ones.

What luxury goods were often traded along the Silk Roads?

Textiles porcelain

Cotton slaves

Silk metals/gems

What transportation technologies facilitated trade along the Silk Roads?

Previously existing forms of transportation.

What commercial technology facilitated trade along the Silk Roads?

Caravanserai

Forms of Credit

Money

Economy

Explain how the Mongol Khanates developed:

Empires collapsed and were replaced by new imperial states, one being the Mongol Khanates.

Explain how the Mongol Khanates facilitated trade in Afro-Eurasia:

Mongol Khanates facilitated trade by encouraging it as more and more people were drawn into their conquerors economies and trade networks.

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

There was the transfer of..

Greco-Islamic medical knowledge

Numbering systems

Adoption of Uyghur script

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

Factors that led to the Indian Ocean trade networks to grow were the improvements in transportation technology and commercial practices.

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

The compass, the astrolabe and larger ship sizes.

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

The existing trade routes promoted its growth as well as other trading cities.

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

The trade networks spread culture through setting up diaspora communities in which they introduced their own cultural tradition into the indigenous cultures and were influenced by each other.

Describe a diasporic community that resulted from the Indian Ocean trade:

Arab and Persian were self-governing and resulted from the Indian Ocean Trade route.

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

Throughout the Indian Ocean trade networks merchants depended on their knowledge on monsoon winds.

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

Growth of the Trans-Saharan Trade networks increased due to existing transportation technologies, the camel saddle and caravans.

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

The effects led to an increased volume of trade routes, including the trans-Saharan trade network.

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

The camel saddle and caravans.

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

Mali and West Africa connected through Mali facilitating trade in Afro-Eurasion trade and communication as more 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 increase of cross -cultural interactions resulted in the diffusion of:

Literacy

Art

Cultural Traditions

Scientific and Technological Innovations.

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

Two major innovations were Gunpowder and Paper which were both from China.

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

Agricultural practices passed through the areas such as champa rice and the diffusion of other crops.

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

Deforestation and the spread of diseases such as the bubonic plague.

Prompt 1: Evaluate the extent to which new transportation technologies changed economic activity in the period circa 1200 to 1450.

New transportation technologies encouraged economic activity by making it easier to export and travel, an example would be canavasaries that would help move bigger amounts of goods throughout the trade routes.

Prompt 2: Evaluate the extent to which networks of exchange impacted religious activities in the period 1200 to 1450 CE.

Increase activity in trade networks changed certain religions to have a more open view of trade in order to recruit more followers such as Buddhism originally not clinging on to materials then later paying for people to build monasteries and giving them more importance in the religion.

Prompt 3: Evaluate the extent to which trade networks influenced the expansion of empires in the 1200 to 1450 time period.

The expansion of empires were influenced by the spread of new technologies, such as champa rice being the reason for better food production which causes a bigger population.

Prompt 4: Evaluate the extent to which trade networks facilitated cultural and technological transfers in the 1200 to 1450 time period.

The transfers of culture and technology happened through merchants as they traveled, diasporic communities were a big cultural trading center by trading ideas in their culture with the indegineuos one, vice versa.