Unit 2

Question 1

Silk Roads economic impact

Question 2

Kashgar and Samarkand

Question 3

caravanserai

Question 4

forms of credit

Question 5

development of money economies

Question 6

Bills of Exchange

Question 7

Banking Houses

Question 8

Use of Paper Money

Question 9

textiles, porcelains, iron and steel in China

Question 10

Mongol khanates

Question 11

transfer of Greco-Islamic medical knowledge to western Europe

Question 12

transfer of numbering systems to Europe

Question 13

adoption of Uyghur script

Question 14

Indian Ocean innovations

Answer 14

compass, astrolabe, larger ship designs

Question 15

Swahili Coast city-states

Question 16

Gujarat

Question 17

Sultanate of Malacca

Question 18

diasporic communities

Question 19

Arab and Persian communities in East Africa

Question 20

Chinese merchant communities in Southeast Asia

Question 21

Malay communities in the Indian Ocean basin

Question 22

Ming Admiral Zheng He

Question 23

environmental knowledge and about monsoon winds

Question 24

Trans-Saharan innovations

Answer 24

camel saddle, caravans

Question 25

What did improved transportation technologies and commercial practices do?

Answer 25

increased volume of trade and expanded the geographical range of existing trade routes

Question 26

Mali empire

Question 27

Increased cross-cultural interactions resulted in

Answer 27

the diffusion of literacy, artistic and cultural traditions, as well as scientific and technological innovations

Question 28

influence of Buddhism in East Asia

Question 29

spread of Hinduism and Buddhism into Southeast Asia

Question 30

spread of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia

Question 31

gunpowder from China

Question 32

paper from China

Question 33

Ibn Battuta

Question 34

Margery Kempe

Question 35

Marco Polo

Question 36

there was continued _ along trade routes

Answer 36

diffusion of crops and pathogens, with epidemic diseases, including bubonic plague

Question 37

bubonic plague

Question 38

Bananas in Africa

Question 39

New rice varieties in East Asia

Question 40

Spread of cities in the Mediterranean

Question 41

improved commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade and

Answer 41

expanded the geographical range of existing trade routes - including the Silk Roads - promoting the growth of powerful new trading cities

Question 42

the growth of interregional trade in luxury goods was encouraged by

Answer 42

innovations in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies including the caravanserai, forms of credit, and development of money economies

Question 43

changes in trade networks resulted from and stimulated

Answer 43

increasing productive capacity, with important implications for social and gender structures and environmental processes

Question 44

demand for luxury goods increased in Afro-Eurasia, Chinese, Persian, and Indian

Answer 44

artisans and merchants expanded their production of textiles and porcelains for exports; manufacture of iron and steel expanded in China