AP world history Chapter 8 study guide.

The Sahara was know for deposits of what commodity?

Salt

Goods passed down the line

Relay trade

Contrast silk and sea roads

Sea roads carried more products for a mass market rather than just luxury goods

What luxury good came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system?

Silk

How did Buddhism change as it spread along the silk roads?

Gods were incorporated as bodhastivas

What facilitated trade along the silk roads?

Large and powerful states that have security

What civilization heavily influenced the Swahili civilizations?

Bantu

The absence of what type of technology made long-distance trade in the Americas different?

Wheeled vehicles

In which third-wave civilization did the state largely control trade, preventing a professional merchant class from emerging?

Incas

What characteristics did the states that emerged in west Africa between 500 and 1600 share?

A reputation in the wider world for great riches

How did the sudden rise of Islam in the seventh century affect Indian Ocean commerce?

Muslim merchants and sailors made communities or traders from east africa to the south of china coast

What state had the greatest control over economic exchange with in its borders?

Inca empire

The silk roads built upon earlier trading connections between Eurasian civilizations and what group of people?

Pastoral

How did the Silk Road trade affect presents in China?

Focused on luxury goods

The press of the Black Death from china to Europe in the fourteenth century occurred during an era of increased contact facilitated by the rule of what group of people?

Mongol rule

What technological innovations facilitated Indian Ocean commerce?

Junks

How did the Chinese state affect the expanded trade in the Indian Ocean basin between the sixth and eleventh centuries?

Encouraged maritime trade

The sand roads linked North Africa and the Mediterranean world to the land and peoples of what part of Africa?

interior west africa

What animal made the long trek across the Sahara possible?

Camels

What are the characteristics of the networks of exchange in the Americas?

Networks were local