AP World History: Modern / Unit 2: Networks of Exchange (c. 1200–1450)
2.7 Comparison of Economic Exchange
Notes
Compare the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean and trans-Saharan networks: goods, technology, who controlled them, and cultural effects. All grew in this period and connected distant regions.
Practice
The Indian Ocean network carried more bulk goods than the Silk Roads because:
Sea transport.
All three trade networks:
Cultural diffusion.
Trans-Saharan trade depended most on:
Desert crossing.
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