P1 Silver Networks of Exchange Flashcards
What new trading cities emerged due to the expansion of trade along the silk road?
- Kashgar
- Samarkand
Due to increased demand of luxury goods on the silk road, what was China producing in this period?
- silk and porcelain
- iron and steel
What innovations led to the expansion of the silk road?
- caravanserai
- forms of credit (bills of exchange, banking houses, paper money)
What new trading cities emerged due to the expansion of trade in the Indian Ocean Basin?
- Swahili city-states
- Gujarat
- Sultanate of Malacca
What innovations led to the expansion of trade in the Indian Ocean?
- compass
- astrolabe
- larger ship designs
- environmental knowledge of monsoon winds
What technologies helped increase Trans-Saharan trade routes?
- Camel Saddles
- caravans
What were some environmental diffusions through trade?
- Disease (bubonic plague)
-Crops (bananas in Africa, Champa rice in Asia)
Who were some travelers who wrote about their journeys?
- Ibn Battuta
- Marco Polo
- Margery Kempe
What caused an expansion of trade networks?
Expansion of empires (Mongol Khanates, Mali)
What technological and cultural transfers occurred due to conflicts?
- islamic medical knowledge to Europe
- numbering systems to Europe
- Mongol adoption of the Uyghur script in Asia
What were some technological innovations that spread due to expansion of empires?
- gunpowder from China
- paper from China
