Sahara Desert, Mali, Northern AfricaTrans-Saharan Trade Network Show
Unit 2 Networks of ExchangeAN OVERVIEW OF THE UNIT: 2.1 The Silk Roads 2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World 2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean 2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes 2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity 2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity 2.7 Comparison of Economic Exchange Era 1: 1200-1450 CE As you continue your study of the period c. 1200–c. 1450, you’ll learn how areas of the world were linked through trade and how these connections affected people, cultures, and environments.
On The Exam 8%–10% of exam score MAP ASSIGNMENT AND QUIZ SCHEDULE:Unit 2 will include two MAP TESTS! The lists for the maps are below. You may either use a map from the set I keep in the classroom, or if you would like a better quality map, go to the page here on the website for Geography and find a printable map that is more to your liking. Map One actually correlates to the Unit 1 content, and Map Two more directly aligns with Unit 2. The map tests will be a numbered map. Yes, there are a lot of places: BUT, you will find that you already know a lot of them :) MAP ONE
Silk Road/Silk Routes Kashgar Samarkand Bills of exchange Banking houses Paper money Luxury goods Caravanserai Caravan Camel saddle Persia Artisans Merchants Textiles Porcelain Melaka Mongols Marco Polo Ibn Battuta Mongol Empire (political term) Mongols (cultural term) state building collapse (of an empire) imperial states khanates Chagatai Khanate Golden Horde Ilkhanate Yuan Dynasty Greco-Islamic medical knowledge numbering systems Uyghur script technological transfers cultural transfers 2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity2.6 Environmental Consequences of ConnectivityWhat similarities exist between the various networks of exchange in the time period c 1200 to c 1450?1200 to c. 1450. Similarities of networks is that they all traded goods and other items. Differences would be the landscape and what cities are involved in the trade circles.
What are the networks of exchange?Unit 2: Networks of Exchange (c. 1200-1450):
Expansion of Communication/Exchange Networks A deepening and widening of networks of human interaction within and across regions contributed to cultural, technological, and biological diffusion within and between various societies.
What are the similarities and differences between the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean trade network?The Silk Road and the Indian Ocean trade were similar because they both spread religion but they were also different because the Silk road was overland trade whereas the Indian Ocean trade was over sea and the Silk Road focused more on luxury goods.
How did people and network of exchange impact each other?As exchange networks intensified, an increasing number of travelers within Afro–Eurasia wrote about their travels. . Increased cross-cultural interactions resulted in the diffusion of literary, artistic, and cultural traditions, as well as scientific and technological innovation.
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