Unit 2 Flashcards

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Unit 2 Content

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Major trade routes and their effects

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Networks of Exchange

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Trade routes where merchants carried goods for sale but also brought their religion, language, and technology

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The Big Three Networks of Exchange

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Silk Roads, Trans-Saharn, and Indian Ocean

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Silk Roads

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Stretched across Eurasia where luxury goods were traded (silk and porcelain)

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Reason for luxury goods on Silk Roads

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If it don’t make the boom boom, I don’t got the room room

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Innovation that facilitated the expansion of Silk Roads

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Caravanserai

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Caravanserai

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Hotels that were placed along the Silk Roads providing safety

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Caravanserai significance

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Brought merchants of all different culture together who transferred cultural and technological knowledge with one another

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Commercial Practices

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Money Economies and Credit

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Money Economies

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Instead of trading goods with goods you trade money for goods, introduces paper money

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Credit

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Promise to bank and/or merchant that you’ll pay them back later

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Kashgar

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Powerful trading city that was in the middle of two routes on the Silk Roads

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Innovation that expanded trade in Indian Ocean

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Understanding of monsoon winds

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Monsoon Winds

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Winds predictably blew in one direction or the other depending on the season

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Goods in Indian Ocean trade

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Common goods like textiles and spices

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Technological Innovations for Indian Ocean

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Magnetic compass, Astrolabe, New Ship Designs

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Swahili City-States

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Powerful maritime empire that traded gold, ivory, and slaves

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Chinese Junk

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Huge ship that could carry more goods across the Indian Ocean

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Diasporic Community

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A settlement of ethnic people in a location other than their homeland, an effect of Indian Ocean Trade

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Jheng He

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Sent by China to go through the Indian Ocean to get China more tribute states. Bro ended up spreading all of China’s tech and culture like the goofball he is

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Innovation for Trans Sahran Trade

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Camel Saddle
Held more

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Empire of Mali

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Got mad rich through trade in the Trans Saharan with gold and taxing merchants.
Mansa musa was leader

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Cultural Effects of Trade Routes

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Transfer of Religion
Literary and Art Transfer
Scientific and Technological Innovations

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Environmental Effects

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Transfer of Crops
Transfer of Disease

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Mongol Empire

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Established largest land-based empire of all time
Networks of Exchange increased
Facilitated technological and cultural transfers

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5 Khanates of Mongol Empire

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Golden Hordes - Eastern Europe to Siberia
Yuan Dynasty - China
Ilkhanate - Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, Persia
Chagatai - Central Asia.