1. Classical Trade

2. How did trade & communication
networks develop by 600 CE?
• What technologies enabled long-distance
overland and maritime trade?
• Besides the physical goods, what intangibles also
traveled along trade networks?
• What crops spread along Classical Era trade
networks?
• What effects did diseases have on Classical
empires?
• How did religions spread along trade networks,
and how did the trade networks affect the
religions?

7. What technologies enabled longdistance overland?
• Yoke, saddle, stirrups
• Horses, oxen, llamas, camels

8. What technologies enabled longdistance maritime trade?
• Lateen sails, Dhow Ships
• Advanced knowledge of monsoon winds

9. Besides the physical goods, what intangibles
also traveled along trade networks?
• Belief systems – Christianity, Buddhism
• Knowledge of metalworking, farming, other
technologies
• Disease

10. What crops spread along Classical Era
trade networks?
• Rice (Champa) and cotton from South Asia to
the Middle East, encouraged changes in
farming and irrigation techniques

11. Air Conditioning

12. What effects did diseases have on
Classical empires?

13. How did religions spread along trade networks,
and how did the trade networks affect the
religions?