AP World

Question 1

Caravanserai

Answer 1

Rest areas for exchange of camels and resupply

Question 2

What are Bills of Exchange?

Answer 2

An order to pay a certain amount to a certain person in a certain amount of time. Eliminated danger of traveling with wealth along trade routes

Question 3

Banking Houses

Answer 3

Would lend money to merchants in order to buy goods; merchants would pay back once goods were sold

Question 4

Pax Mongolica

Answer 4

Under the Mongol Khanates, Silk Road, and trade was protected and floruished

Question 5

What are examples of technological and cultural transfers in this period of time?

Answer 5

• Transfer of Greco-Islamic medical knowledge to Western Europe
• Transfer of numbering systems to Europe
• Adoption of Uyghur script

Question 6

How did the Arabic numeral system get transferred to Europe?

Answer 6

Arabic numerals were developed by Indian mathematicians, which was adopted by Arabic mathematicians in Baghdad which was passed to the West

Question 7

How did cultural exchange affect the Networks of Communication & Exchange?

Answer 7

Theravada Buddhism originated India but travelled through networks of communication to China becoming Mahayana Buddhism. Knowledge of crops such as crystallization of sugar spread knowledge across Indian Ocean Trade Network

Question 8

What were the top two improved commercial practices?

Answer 8

European bills of exchange used so merchants could have safer business, and Chinese paper currency as well

Question 9

Examples of improved transportation technologies

Answer 9

Camels and horses were given saddles so could hold lots of goods, ships were expanded as well. Caravanaseria and Chinese Junk ships are the names for these things

Question 10

What were some effects of the Black Plague?

Answer 10

• Caused lots of migration from urban to rural areas so people could farm
• If someone survived they would be in high demand and could get higher wages

Question 11

How did Mongols contribute to rise and fall of states?

Answer 11

Golden Horde Khanate took over Kievan Rus but ultimately pushed out by Moscow. Great Khan took over Song Dynasty but were dominated by Ming Dynasty

Question 12

Ibn Battuta

Answer 12

Muslim scholar who was famous for logging his travels, wanted to spread information so went to lots of universities and libraries, did the hajj

Question 13

Marco Polo

Answer 13

Travelled world to China across Silk Road to make money