UNIT 2 Flashcards
Mongol Empire’s Impact on Trade
Unified authority across the entire silk road, almost eradicated bandits across the silk road, established new trade roads across Asia, and revived trade routes that hadn’t been used since roman times
Caravans
Caravans
A group of traveling merchants, typically with beasts of burden
Chinese Maritime Innovations
Rudder, junk ship, and magnetic compass
Kashgar
Trade city located on the western edge of China, the intersection of the northern and southern routes of the silk roads, which lead to Central Asia, Pakistan, India, and Persia, by the Taklamakan desert, home of fertile crops such as rice wheat, and fruit, center of many handcrafted goods, was once Buddhist but became a center of Islam
Caravanserai
Inns located 100 miles apart, a resting place for your camel and yourself, as well as a location where you can receive fresh water, you could also trade in your camel for a better one!
Flying Cash
A system of credit in which paper money could be deposited at one “banking house,” and the same amount could be withdrawn from a different “banking house”
Bill of Exchange
An ancient form of the check, a merchant could sign his name and a certain amount and whoever was given the bill could take it to a banking house and take the amount of paper money from the signer’s “account”
Hanseatic League
A commercial alliance formed in the 13th century, that stretched from Scandinavia to Germany, that controlled trade in the North and Baltic Sea
Increase in Demand for Luxury Goods
Caused an increase in the supply of luxury goods, and the expanse in their production , as well as motivating the iron and steel manufacturing in china, which ultimately led to the proto-industrialization of China
Indian Ocean Slave Trade
he slave trade in the Indian Ocean in which people, “not of the book” were taken and transported around India and Africa did unpaid work, based on religion not race
Calicut
City on the coast of West India which was the main point of interaction between India and Southwest Africa
Goods Provided from India
Fabrics, cotton, woven carpets, high-carbon steel, tanned leather, pepper, and artisan-crafted stonework.
Goods provided from the Spice Islands
Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Cloves, and Cardamom
Goods Provided from Swahili City States
Enslaved People, ivory, and Gold
Goods provided from China
Silks and Porcelain
Goods provided from Southwest Asia
Horses, Figs, Dates
Monsoon Winds
Seasonal wind patterns used by ancient merchants to plot trade routes
Lateen Sail
Triangular sail that easily caught winds from many directions
Astrolabe
Allowed sailors to determine how far north or south they were from the equator
Malacca
A wealthy muslim city state which became wealthy by building ships, as well as imposing fees on ships that pass through the strait of Malacca, most of their prosperity was based off of trade.
Diasporic Communities (Indian Ocean)
Communities made up of people who originally come from another place, but bring their customs to their new home
Oasis
Places where human settlement is possible because water from deep underground is brought to the surface, making land fertile
Camel Saddles
Innovation that allows merchants to ride upon camels, different kinds of saddles had different uses for the camel
Goods Traded in Trans-Saharan Network
Gold, Precious metals, ivory, enslaved people
Timbuktu
City that accumulated wealth and became world-renowned for Islamic learning the home of many expensive books
Mali’s effect on trade
Created many taxes on trade entering West Africa, profited highly from gold trade, also profited off of agricultural products such as sorghum and rice
Sundiata
The founding ruler of the Mali Empire, known as the Lion Prince, his family was killed when he was young but left him because he was crippled, he then came back and avenged his family, and established the Mali Empire, he cultivated the gold trade in Mali
Mansa Musa
Sundiata’s grand-nephew, was a very religious king and made a pilgrimage to Mecca in which he distributed gold to all of those who hosted him, established many schools in Timbuktu and many mosques across muslim trading cities and sponsored many people who wanted to continue or start their religious journeys, he deepened support for Islam in Mali
Songhai Kingdom
Replaced Mali as the trade powerhouse in West Africa in the late 1400s , but by following a similar path as Mali became far larger and richer than Mali had been
