CH7 WHAP

How did trade affect politics?

What similarities/differences do the trade networks of the Classical/Post-Classical eras share with modern eras

Where was the world’s largest sea-based system of communication before 1500CE?

Define: commerce

How did the Silk roads derive its name?

What helped trade networks, such as the Silk Roads, prosper for many years?

How did the peoples in West Africa initially trade with one another?

The text describes the Silk Roads as “relay trade”- what does that mean?

What new method of transportation allowed traders to travel across the Sahara Desert?

What city played an important role in Mediterranean Sea trade?

List some evidence that Southeast Asia was heavily influenced by India.

List some changes that occurred in Buddhist beliefs and practices as the religion spread across the Silk Roads.

How did Indian Ocean trade differ from the Silk roads in the types of goods exchanged? Why did this difference exist?

Give an example of how human diets were positively impacted by more diversity in foods available because of trade.

In what aspects did Southeast Asia remain distinct from Indian culture and society?

What initially caused the creation of trade across Eurasia?

Explain how Southeast Asian involvement in Indian ocean trade prompted the rise of the Srivijayan Kingdom

What 2 major events occurred during the Post-classical era that caused increased prosperity in Indian Ocean trade?

List some evidence that proves the Swahili coast was culturally influenced by its interaction with merchants in the IO

Explain the role of women in the process of making silk.

What accounted for the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Roads?

Explain how involvement in Indian Ocean trade led to the rise of the Swahili city-states in Eastern Africa

List some examples of women exercising power and influence in West African society.

What role did pastoral nomadic groups play in trade networks such as the Silk Roads?

Where were the most active networks of communication and exchange in the Americas located?

What religion also traveled along the Trans-Saharan trade routes?

List at least one example of syncretism in relation to Buddhism.

What cultural ideas spread along the Indian Ocean trading lanes?

How did trade bring about economic changes to a given society?

Merchants travel farther than the items they sell.

List obstacles that stood in the way of a trade network developing in the Americas that was equal to any in Afro-Eurasia

How did human understanding of the environment facilitate the creation of Indian Ocean trade?

What caused the initial incentive to trade across the Sahara desert?

What were some of the positive and negative effects of the spread of disease?

What group came to dominate Indian Ocean trade in the Post-Classical era?

What commodities (goods) did traders desire from West Africa?

What technologies facilitated an increased use of the Indian Ocean as a trading network?

What made silk such a highly desired commodity across Eurasia?

How did trade affect society? (think social classes and status)

What did Sudanic peoples of West Africa receive in exchange for their goods?

List some of the diseases that were spread along the Silk Roads at various times throughout history

How did the people of the Andes mountains, such as the Inca, travel in order to trade?

Why were goods on the Silk Road more suited for the wealthy, rather than the poor?

At this point where were most African slaves being sent to? Most commonly were these slaves male or female?

Define globalization

How did west African kingdoms use the Trans-Saharan trade to solidify their power?

What was the role of the Swahili city-states in the world of Indian Ocean commerce?

How did exposure to diseases from trade along the Silk Roads actually give the Europeans an advantage in the long-run?

How did the Mayans travel in order to trade?

Define caravan and describe the size of the caravans traveling across the Sahara to trade in West Africa