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Unit 2: Networks of Exchange Exam Study
Guide Questions and Verified Answers
Q: Explain the various factors that led to the growth of the Silk Road trade networks in
the 1200 - 1450 time period:
ANS: An increase in innovations and improved commercial practices and the
revival of old routes and creation of new ones.
Q:
What luxury goods were often traded along the Silk Roads?
ANS: Textiles porcelain
Cotton slaves
Silk metals/gems
Q:
What transportation technologies facilitated trade along the Silk Roads?
ANS: Previously existing forms of transportation.
Q:
What commercial technology facilitated trade along the Silk Roads?
ANS: Caravanserai
Forms of Credit
Money
Economy
Q:
Explain how the Mongol Khanates developed:
ANS: Empires collapsed and were replaced by new imperial states, one being the
Mongol Khanates.
Q:
Explain how the Mongol Khanates facilitated trade in Afro-Eurasia:
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ANS: Mongol Khanates facilitated trade by encouraging it as more and more people
were drawn into their conquerors economies and trade networks.
Q:
Describe some of the cultural transfers that resulted from the Mongol khanates:
ANS: There was the transfer of..
Greco-Islamic medical knowledge
Numbering systems
Adoption of Uyghur script
Q:
Explain the various factors that led to the growth of the Indian Ocean trade networks in
the 1200 - 1450 time period:
ANS: Factors that led to the Indian Ocean trade networks to grow were the
improvements in transportation technology and commercial practices.
Q:
What technologies facilitated trade in the Indian Ocean during the 1200-1450 time
period?
ANS: The compass, the astrolabe and larger ship sizes.
Q:
Explain the impact that Indian Ocean trade had on the Swahili city-states:
ANS: The existing trade routes promoted its growth as well as other trading cities.
Q:
How did the Indian Ocean trade networks spread culture throughout the region?
ANS: The trade networks spread culture through setting up diaspora communities
in which they introduced their own cultural tradition into the indigenous cultures
and were influenced by each other.
Q:
Describe a diasporic community that resulted from the Indian Ocean trade:
ANS: Arab and Persian were self-governing and resulted from the Indian Ocean
Trade route.
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange Exam Study
Guide Questions and Verified Answers
Q: Explain the various factors that led to the growth of the Silk Road trade networks in
the 1200 - 1450 time period:
ANS: An increase in innovations and improved commercial practices and the
revival of old routes and creation of new ones.
Q:
What luxury goods were often traded along the Silk Roads?
ANS: Textiles porcelain
Cotton slaves
Silk metals/gems
Q:
What transportation technologies facilitated trade along the Silk Roads?
ANS: Previously existing forms of transportation.
Q:
What commercial technology facilitated trade along the Silk Roads?
ANS: Caravanserai
Forms of Credit
Money
Economy
Q:
Explain how the Mongol Khanates developed:
ANS: Empires collapsed and were replaced by new imperial states, one being the
Mongol Khanates.
Q:
Explain how the Mongol Khanates facilitated trade in Afro-Eurasia:
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ANS: Mongol Khanates facilitated trade by encouraging it as more and more people
were drawn into their conquerors economies and trade networks.
Q:
Describe some of the cultural transfers that resulted from the Mongol khanates:
ANS: There was the transfer of..
Greco-Islamic medical knowledge
Numbering systems
Adoption of Uyghur script
Q:
Explain the various factors that led to the growth of the Indian Ocean trade networks in
the 1200 - 1450 time period:
ANS: Factors that led to the Indian Ocean trade networks to grow were the
improvements in transportation technology and commercial practices.
Q:
What technologies facilitated trade in the Indian Ocean during the 1200-1450 time
period?
ANS: The compass, the astrolabe and larger ship sizes.
Q:
Explain the impact that Indian Ocean trade had on the Swahili city-states:
ANS: The existing trade routes promoted its growth as well as other trading cities.
Q:
How did the Indian Ocean trade networks spread culture throughout the region?
ANS: The trade networks spread culture through setting up diaspora communities
in which they introduced their own cultural tradition into the indigenous cultures
and were influenced by each other.
Q:
Describe a diasporic community that resulted from the Indian Ocean trade:
ANS: Arab and Persian were self-governing and resulted from the Indian Ocean
Trade route.
