Ch 8: Commerce and Culture *Answers MUST be at least one full paragraph, questions asking you to compare must have at least 3 similarities and 3 differences. You must EXPLAIN every answer, no simple yes or no answers. EXPLAIN.... seriously explain your answers. Important People Big Picture Globalization of the modern world has ties to earlier periods in *do these as ID Cards world history. While international trade occurred during the Ibn Battuta classical era, trade expanded dramatically between 500 and Marco Polo 1500 CE. The Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Trans-Saharan trade routes linked established civilizations to new regions of the world. As international trade routes developed, new civilizations flourished in Africa and Southeast Asia. The trade routes also had tremendous impact on the economies, societies,and cultures of the people involved in Historical Terms Essential Understanding American Web Black Death 1.What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Borobudur Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads? Bubonic plague Ghana, Mali, Songhay 2. Why did the Eastern Hemisphere develop long-distance trade Great Zimbabwe more extensively than did the societies of the Western Hemisphere? Ibn Battuta Indian Ocean Trade 3. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes? Malaysians Monsoons cities of Central Asia 4. In what ways was Afro-Eurasia a single interacting zone, and in Sailendras what respects was it a vast region of separate cultures and Sand Roads civilizations? Silk Srivijaya 5. What lay behind the emergence of the Silk Road commerce and Sudan what kept it going for so many centuries? Swahili Civilization Third-wave civilizations Trans-Saharan slave trade Venice Your Questions (questions you need/want answered from the reading):
Ch 8: Commerce and Culture *Answers MUST be at least one full paragraph, questions asking you to compare must have at least 3 similarities and 3 differences. You must EXPLAIN every answer, no simple yes or no answers. EXPLAIN.... seriously explain your answers. Important People *do these as ID Cards Ibn Battuta Marco Polo Big Picture Globalization of the modern world has ties to earlier periods in world history. While international trade occurred during the classical era, trade expanded dramatically between 500 and 1500 CE. The Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Trans-Saharan trade routes linked established civilizations to new regions of the world. As international trade routes developed, new civilizations flourished in Africa and Southeast Asia. The trade routes also had tremendous impact on the economies, societies,and cultures of the people involved in Historical Terms American Web Black Death Borobudur Bubonic plague Ghana, Mali, Songhay Great Zimbabwe Ibn Battuta Indian Ocean Trade Malaysians Monsoons cities of Central Asia Sailendras Sand Roads Silk Srivijaya Sudan Swahili Civilization Third-wave civilizations Trans-Saharan slave trade Venice Essential Understanding 1.What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads? 2. Why did the Eastern Hemisphere develop long-distance trade more extensively than did the societies of the Western Hemisphere? 3. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes? 4. In what ways was Afro-Eurasia a single interacting zone, and in what respects was it a vast region of separate cultures and civilizations? 5. What lay behind the emergence of the Silk Road commerce and what kept it going for so many centuries? Your Questions (questions you need/want answered from the reading):
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