Unit 2: Networks of Exchange Flashcards
Kashgar/Samarkand
New cities formed because of silk road.
Caravanserai
A Hotel made for travelers and traders.
Paper Money
- trade improved forms of payment
Banking
- trade improved forms of payment
Porcelain
- Luxury good
- from China
Steppe
- Mongols lived in the Steppe region
- Central Asia
Genghis Khan
- Universal Ruler
- Mongol
- United Mongol tribes
- Made rivals work for him (bureaucracy)
Khanates
Bubonic Plauge
Monsoon
- Seasonal winds
- Indian trade route
- Increased trade in India
(winds boosted the pace of ships)
Compass
Ming Admiral Zheng He
- Important trade and travel in the Indian trade route
- From China
Disapora
A population living separately from their geographic origin
Caravans
- Trade in Africa on caravans
- Camel/saddle + Astrology/GPS = Trade
Timbuktu
- Center of Scholarships
- Located in Mali at a transshipment point
- Trading point
Mali
- Mansa Musa ruler
- Timbuktu
Mansa Musa
- Rich
Islam
Gold and Salt
- Gold came from the south and was traded to the north
- Salt came from the north and was traded south
- African trade
Champa Rice
- Grows fast, 2x harvest, drought resistance
- China
Citrus Fruits
- Healing remedy used to treat the Black Death
Sugar
Historical Skills: Comparison
Explain the relevant similarities and differences among the various networks of exchange.
Historical Skills: Causation
Describe the causes and effects of the increased volume/expanded range of existing trade routes.
Spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam
Spread of paper money and gunpowder
Ibn Battuta
Marco Polo