AP World Era 2 Key Concept 2.3

Question 1

What and what routes became the basis for transregional trade, communication, and exchange networks in the Eastern Hemisphere?
Examples?

Answer 1

Land and water
Variety of trade routes (Eurasian Silk Roads, Trans-Saharan caravan routes, Indian Ocean sea lanes, Mediterranean sea lanes)

Question 2

What facilitated long-distance communication and exchange?

Examples?

Answer 2

New technologies
Technologies (saddles)
Dom. Pack animals (horses)
Innovations in maritime tech. (dhow ships)

Question 3

Alongside the trade in goods, the exchange of what, what, what and what, what, what and what developed across far-flung networks of communication and exchange?
Examples?

Answer 3

People, technology, religious and cultural beliefs, food crops, domesticated animals, and disease pathogens
Changes in farming and irrigation tech. (qanat system)
Disease (Rome, Han)
Rel, & cult. tradition (Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism)