1. Unit 3 trade routes 600ce-1450ce

2. What was the silk Road Trade Route ?
Silk Road Trade Routes

6. Key Players on the silk road

7. Silk Road New Technologies that facilitated trade Camel Saddles
Caravanserai
Horse saddle

8. Monsoon market Place

13. Technology exchanged Gunpowder-China Astrolabe-Arabs
Concept of zero, pi- India

14. Technology to facilitate trade
Dhow- Arab sailors
Compass – Tang China
Buying on Credit, checks, & banks- Abbassids
Flying Cash- China
Junk- Chinese
Astrolabe-Arabs

16. What key continuities in the Indian Ocean Trade
Use of the Monsoons
Ideas constantly being exchanged, cultural diffusion

17. What diseases and pathogens also spread along post classical Trade routes ?
Black Death on the Silk Roads

18. Spread of Hinduism
Hinduism also spread along the Silk Roads, primarily along the sea lanes
Indian merchants brought Brahmin priests
This for example is how Hinduism spread from India to Malaya

19. Dhow with lateen sails
The exact origins of the dhow are lost to history. Most scholars believe that it originated in China from 600 B.C. to 600 A.D.

20. Products that Contributed to Indian Ocean Commerce
Mediterranean—ceramics, glassware, wine, gold, olive oil
East Africa—ivory, gold, iron goods, slaves, tortoiseshells, quartz, leopard skins
Arabia—frankincense (desired far beyond Indian Ocean world), myrrh, perfumes
India—grain, ivory, precious stones, cotton textiles, spices, timber
SE Asia—tin, sandlewood, cloves, nutmeg, mace
China—silks, porcelain, tea

21. Spread of Religion: Christianity
Antioch, the western terminus of the overland Silk Roads, was an important center in early Christianity
Like other religions, Christianity followed the trade routes and expanded east throughout Mesopotamia, Iran, and as far away as India
However, its greatest concentration was in the Mediterranean basin, where the Roman Roads, like the Silk Roads, provided ready transportation

22. Trans-Saharan Trade
A series of powerful trading kingdoms emerged in West Africa.
Salt
The West African kingdoms controlled important trade routes that connected N. Africa and West Africa.
Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade
North Africa was rich in the salt that West Africa lacked.
West Africa was rich in gold.
The Trans-Saharan trade led to an exchange of salt for gold.

23. Ghana: ce
Ghana was called the “land of gold” but it did not have gold. Instead, the trade routes passed through Ghana and the kings of Ghana taxed all entering and exiting the kingdom.
ce.
The kings of Ghana used their wealth to build a powerful army and keep the peace within their empire.
Gave gold for horses, cloth, salt manufactured goods

25. Mali:
After decline of Ghana, the West African Kingdom of Mali emerged as a great trading empire.
Took control of Gold Trade
Most famous king: Mansa Musa
set up a great center of learning in Timbuktu
Expanded empire
Converted to Islam and went on Hajj
Gave away tremendous amount of gold

26. Songhai:
The West African kingdom of Songhai was the largest of the three trading kingdoms
Muslim
controlled the profitable Trans-Saharan trade
Eventually, the kingdom of Songhai fell to invading armies from Morocco in 1591 (they had guns)

27. What crops, new foods, and agricultural practices were diffused through Post-classical trade?
Bananas in Africa from New Guinea
Champa Rice from Vietnam to China
Muslim Agricultural techniques (qanat)
Sugar & citrus from SE Asia ➔ S Asia ➔ Middle East ➔ N Africa

28. How did post classical trade spread technological and scientific traditions?
Examples-Chinese gunpowder and printing technology to the Muslims then to the Western Europe
The influence of Greek and Indian scholars on the Muslims

29. Aside form gold/ salt what else spread along the Trans Saharan Trade Route?
Islam & the Arabic Language