unit 2 Flashcards
Euraisa, caravanserai, money economies, paper money, intro of credit, banking houses, Kashgar
silk roads
inns along trade routes, provide saftey, cultures came togther
caravanserai (silk road)
paper money is used as currency instead of a Barter economy where they use goods for currecny
money economies (silk road)
banking houses, checking
intro of credit (silk road)
monsoon winds, textiles, spices, common, compass, astrolabe, new ships, swahili, diasporic communites
Indian ocean
compass, astrolabe, new ships (Chinese Junk)
tech innovations (Indian Ocean)
East coast, ivory, gold, slaves, became Islamic, new language
Swahili (Indian Ocean)
civilizations of ethnic people in a location other than their homeland
diasporic communities (Indian ocean)
allowed for transfer of Greek and Islamic medical knowledge to western Europe, adopted ughyr script
mongol empire
camel saddle, mali, gold, conversion to Islam, gold
Trans-Saharan
transfer of belief, literacy and art, gunpowder, rise and fall of cities, travelers, champa rice, bubonic plague
connectivity affects
how did cursades lead to the expansion of silk road?
the knights brought back fabrics and spices from east because the east wanted silver from west
demand for luxury goods like silk and porcelain led to more supply. Also led to expansion of iron and steel in china, motavating proto-industralization there
increase in demand (silk road)
silk, porcelaim, tetiles, tea, paper, gunpowder, compass, christianity, buddhism, islam
items traded on silk road (luxury)
Cotton, carpets, high carbon steel, leather, stone work, pepper
Came from India (Indian ocean)
