Chapter 8 Flashcards
Silk was first produced in
China
what term refers to the land-based routes that crossed Eurasia linking the Mediterranean basin to China
Silk Road
what form of Buddhism which florist along the silk roads, features Buddha as a deity, numerous bodhisattvas, emphasis on compassion, and the possibility of earning merit
Mahayana
One third or more of the population of Europe died of what between 1346 and 1350?
The black death
The Indian Ocean sea roads trade network was made possible by alternating wind currents known as ____ which allowed merchants to sail across the Indian Ocean easily unpredictably
the monsoons
_____ was the fulcrum at the center of the Indian Ocean trade network
India
____ was a sought-after trade product from East Africa in the Indian Ocean trade network
ivory
_____was a sought after trade products from China in the Indian Ocean trade network
porcelain
_____Was a sought after trade product from South East Asia in the Indian Ocean trade network
nutmeg
efforts to reclaim wasteland in Mesopotamia to produce sugar and dates for export stimulated the export of what from East Africa
slaves
which Kingdom dominated the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 CE
Srivijaya
emerging in the eighth century which civilization took shape as a number of independent commercial city states along the East African coast?
Swahili
The Swahili civilization rapidly became what religion setting it culturally apart from neighboring societies in the interior of East Africa
muslim
_____ what is a powerful kingdom in the African interior who’s emergence was in part connected to growing trade in gold to the E. African coast
Great Zimbabwe
North African Arab traders organized Camel caravans across the Sahara primarily to trade for
gold
The introduction of what to north Africa in the early centuries of the common era proved to be a major turning point in the trans Saharan trade facilitating a substantial increase in trade between the Mediterranean basin an equatorial west Africa
camel
before the 1440s slaves in West Europe
where primarily drawn from Slavic speaking regions of East Europe
evidence of at least indirect connection between the civilizations of Mesoamerica in the Andes before the arrival of Europeans include
The spread of maze from Mesoamerica to the Andes
_____was a kingdom in South East Asia
Sailendra
located at the confluence of the Mississippi, Illinois and Missouri rivers ______ lay at the center of a widespread trading network in north America
Cahokia
long-distance trade generated change between 500 and 1500 CE because
it motivated the creation of states, affected day today working lives of many people, became vehicle for spread of ideas and disease
all of the above
which of the following is true of the silk roads
it was largely a relay trade route in which goods were passed down the line
what was true of silk
it was used as currency and a means of accumulating wealth in Central Asia
what was not a factor that facilitated the spread of Buddhism along the silk roads
followers of Zoroastrian face embraced Buddhism in large numbers
as it spread along the silk roads Buddhism had its earliest impact of three large scale conversion of the local population
in oasis towns of central Asia
in regard to the spread of Buddhism along the silk roads
The gods of many local people along the silk roads were incorporated into Buddhism practice
The exchange of diseases along the silk roads
ultimately gave Western Europeans an advantage in later centuries when they confronted peoples of Western Hemisphere who had not been exposed to the diseases of silk roads
which of the following was not an important reason trade route before 1450
The Atlantic Ocean Road across the eastern Atlantic between Europe and equatorial west Africa
in contrast to the silk roads, sea roads of the Indian Ocean
carried more products for a mass-market rather than just luxury goods
during the first centuries CE
Indian Ocean trade picked up, Christianity traveled along Indian Ocean trade routes, Chinese merchants started to trade in India
China contributed to the growth of trade in the Indian Ocean between 500 and 1500 CE in all except which of the following ways
The Chinese state under the tang and song dynasties prohibited merchants from traveling along the silk Road, effectively forcing them to trade along the Indian Ocean trade routes
The sudden rise of Islam in the seventh century CE had an impact on Indian Ocean commerce because
muslim merchants and sailors established communities of traders from East Africa to the southern China coast
Indian cultural influence in Southeast Asia
was a matter of voluntary adoption and adaption of Indian religious, philosophical, and political ideas by independent societies that found them useful
Swahili civilization emerged
as a number of rival independent cities
all of the states that emerged in west Africa after 500 CE
Drew upon the wealth of the trans Saharan trade
Mesoamerica and the Andes
seem to have had little direct contact with each other
in which a third wave civilization did the state largely controlled trade, not allowing a professional merchant class to emerge
The Inca Empire
at its height of my estimate was Asian traded along which of the following networks
seaborne trade network with a south American Indian civilizations and a land-based trade with teotihuacán in Central Mexico
despite other difficulties, long-distance trade in the Americas was facilitated by
none of the above
The emergence of the silk Road was facilitated by
The expansion of China into central Asia during the Han Dynasty in an effort to control the nomadic Xiongnu
