Unit 2 Flashcards
Unit 2 Content
Major trade routes and their effects
Networks of Exchange
Trade routes where merchants carried goods for sale but also brought their religion, language, and technology
The Big Three Networks of Exchange
Silk Roads, Trans-Saharn, and Indian Ocean
Silk Roads
Stretched across Eurasia where luxury goods were traded (silk and porcelain)
Reason for luxury goods on Silk Roads
If it don’t make the boom boom, I don’t got the room room
Innovation that facilitated the expansion of Silk Roads
Caravanserai
Caravanserai
Hotels that were placed along the Silk Roads providing safety
Caravanserai significance
Brought merchants of all different culture together who transferred cultural and technological knowledge with one another
Commercial Practices
Money Economies and Credit
Money Economies
Instead of trading goods with goods you trade money for goods, introduces paper money
Credit
Promise to bank and/or merchant that you’ll pay them back later
Kashgar
Powerful trading city that was in the middle of two routes on the Silk Roads
Innovation that expanded trade in Indian Ocean
Understanding of monsoon winds
Monsoon Winds
Winds predictably blew in one direction or the other depending on the season
Goods in Indian Ocean trade
Common goods like textiles and spices
