1. StrayerNotes Ch 7 Commerce and Culture
Silk Roads Trade
1. What made silk such a highly desired commodity?
2. What were some of the economic and social consequences
of Silk Road trade?
3. What were the reasons that Buddhism spread quickly along
the Silk Road cities?
4. How did Buddhism change as it spread?
5. What were some of the main consequences of diseases
being spread along the Silk Roads?
Indian Ocean Trade
6. Describe how the monsoons were crucial in the trade in the
Indian Ocean?
7. What changes were caused by Malay sailors migrating to
Madagascar?
8. How did the revival of China in the 600s to 1200s and rise
of Islam change Indian Ocean trade?
9. How did Southeast Asia change because of its connection
to Indian Ocean trade?
10. How did East African Swahili civilizations change as a
result of connection to Indian Ocean trade?
Trans-Saharan Trade
11. How did trans-Saharan trade change western and central
Africa (Sudan, Ghana, Mali)?
12. What were the main similarities in the three trade
systems?
13. What is a unique characteristic of each trade system?