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What else was trade (besides goods) along the major trade networks discussed in this chapter?
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religious ideas, technological innovations, disease-bearing germs, and plants and animals to regions far from their p
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What did each of these regions contribute within this trade networks?
North Africa the Sahara region itself the savanna grasslands the first area |
North Africa- generated cloth,glassware,weapons,books,and other manufactured goods
the Sahara region- copper and salt the savanna grasslands- grain crops such as yams and kola nuts |
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What made trans-sharan trade possible?
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Camels
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Which products were MOST in demand from West Africa? what products did they get on return?
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Traded- ivory, kola nuts, and slaves
Received- horses, cloth,dates,various manufactured goods, and especially salt from rich deposits in Sahara |
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Describe the caravans that crossed the Sahara- include their size, when they traveled, for how long they traveled, ect.
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The caravans that crossed the desert could have as many as 5,000 camels and hundreds of people. traveling best at night to avoid heat. it took about 7 days covering 15-25 miles per day.
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How did trans-sahara trade transform the politic set up in west Africa?
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they constructed states,empires,and city-states that reached from the Atlantic coast to lake chad, including Ghana, mali ,songhay,kanem,and the city-states of the Hausa people
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Describe the kingdoms created in west Africa.
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They were monarchies with elaborate court life and varying degrees of administrative complexity and military forces. they taxed merchant who contributed to the trans-saharan trade
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What did these West African kingdoms used slaves for? from where did they get these slaves?
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Women slaves worked as domestic servants and concubine. Men slaves were put to work as state officials, porters, crafts-men, miners harvesting salt from desert deposits, and especially agricultural laborers producing for the royal granaries on large estates or plantations. Slave where found in Islamic and stateless societies.
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People in inner Asia were unable to produce much of their own agriculture. What goods did they trade with their neighbors in order to get agricultural and manufactured products are from them?
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hides, furs,livestock, wool and amber
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When did the silk roads prosper most?
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1)Classical Era
2)seventh and eight centuries c.e 3)thirteenth and fourteen centuries |
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How were good typically carried across the silk roads? what type of goods were typically carried?
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The LUXURY GOODS where carried by CAMELS.
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What regions contributed to which products to Silk Road commerce?
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China- silk, bamboo,mirrors,gunpowder,paper,rhubarb,ginger,lacquerware,chrysanthemums
Forest lands of Siberia and grasslands of Central Asia- furs,walrus tusk,amber,livestock,horses,fañacons,vides copper vessels, tents,saddles,slaves India-cotton textiles,herbal medicine,precious stones,spices Middle east- dates,nuts,almonds,dried fruit,dyes,lapis lazuli,swords Mediterranean basin-gold coins,glassware,glazes,grapevines,jewelry,artworks,perfume,wool and linen textiles, olive oil |
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How did the silk roads affect the daily lives of Chinese farmers?
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They stopped focusing in crops and started producing luxury goods
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What major cultural tradition spread due to the silk road? in what form did it spread?
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Buddhism , Indian readers and Buddhist monks brought the new religion to the trans-Eurasian trade routes
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