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| 245308466 | In what ways was trade significant, and how did it generate change within the societies that it connected? | It altered consumption, affected the day-to-day working lives of many people, encouraging them to specialize in producing particular products for sale in distant markets rather than for use in their own communities. diminished the economic self-sufficiency of local societies | |
| 245308467 | What goods were transported along the Silk Roads? For what reasons was silk the key trade item along these routes? | most of good were luxury products rather than staple goods. Silk was used as currency and as a means of accumulating wealth. it became a symbol of high status. it also became associated with the sacred in the expanding world religions of Buddhism and Christianity. | |
| 245308468 | Buddhism successfully spread into central Asian along the Silk Roads. Why? To what part of foreign societies did Buddhism appeal? What blocked Buddhism from successfully spreading westward? | Appealed to merchants who preferred its universal message to that of a Brahim-dominated Hinduism that privileged the high castes. | |
| 245308469 | In what ways did the spread of Buddhism affect Buddhism itself? | It was more attractive. it picked up elements of other cultures while in transit | |
| 245308470 | Why did India become the fulcrum of the Indian Ocean commercial network? | Its ports bulged with good from both east and west. | |
| 245308471 | What neighboring cultures most heavily influenced the Swahili civilization? | Islam and Arabic | |
| 245308472 | What role of Swahili civilization in the world of Indian Ocean commerce? | merchants were welcome visitors. Major visiting area. | |
| 245308473 | Prior to the mid 15th century,, what was the most significant source of slaves for Europeans? | Slavic cultures | |
| 245308474 | What factors inhibited the development of long distance exchange networks in the Americas? | no domesticated animals to help trade,no clear writing system, little contact with each other geographic boundaries | |
| 245308475 | What was the impact of disease along the Silk Roads? | Black death. people were infected with unfamiliar diseases. smallpox and measles | |
| 245308476 | Black Death | An outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons. | |
| 245308477 | Straits of Malacca | well-traveled stretch of water between Malaysia and Indonesia used for trade along the Spice Route | |
| 245308478 | Pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items | |
| 245308479 | monsoons | seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia; a primary feature of India's climate | |
| 245308480 | quipus | complicated system of knots tied on strings of various colors used by the inca of south america to record information. | |
| 245308481 | "American web" | A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of pre-Colombia Americas; although less intense and complete than the Afro- European trade networks this web nonetheless provided the exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas | |
| 245308482 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. (p. 385) | |
| 245308483 | tse-tse fly | blood-sucking African fly | |
| 245308484 | Muhammad Toure | Songhai king who converted to Islam; extended his rule as far north as the salt mining center at Taghaza in the western Sahara and as far east Agada and Kano; tried to centralize his territories by building a strong army, improving taxation process, and replacing local Songhai officials with more efficient Arab ones; enjoyed economic prosperity | |
| 245308485 | Mansa Musa | this Mali king brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; he was the most powerful king in west africa |
