Unit 2 Video OverviewNetworks of Exchange

1200-1450Watch each video and answer the questions.Your answers should be typed

in a different but reasonable font color.

2.1 The Silk Roads 2.1 Video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi6aLWr6HZw (Stop at 3:31)

1. Extent of the trade route:

2. Impact of Mongol takeover:

3. Describe the method of exchange:

4. Goods exchanged:

5. Culture exchanged:

6. Describe the outward change that Buddhism underwent.

7. Describe the inward change that Buddhism underwent.

8. Describe the impact the Black Death had on the world.

2.1 Video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfe-eNq-Qyg&feature=youtu.be

1. The Silk Road radically expanded the _____________ of trade.

2. The Silk Road was not actually a road but rather an overland route where merchants ______________________________________.

3. One route of the Silk Road connected the _____________________________________ to central Asia and one from central Asia to ________________ and also included sea routes.

4. Good and raw materials traded on the Silk Road included primarily __________, olives, olive oil, wine, jade, silver, iron, cotton textiles, ivory, incense, spices, and tortoise shells.

5. Why did the Roman Senate repeatedly try to ban silk?

6. What/how were three reasons the Silk Road affected the average person? (list and explain)

a.

b.

c.

7. How much of the European population died from the Bubonic Plague?

8. John Green concludes the video by making a brief reference to the analogy between the Silk Road and today’s market globalization (international connectedness of trade). Although he doesn’t expand on this, what do you think he meant? (hint: try to think of similarities between the pros and cons of each)

2.1 Summary

Define the Silk Roads Explain how caravanserai encouraged the growth of interregional trade in luxury goods

Explain why either Kashgar or Samarkand is in the Course description

Describe a new form of credit which encouraged growth in interregional trade Identify 2 luxury goods and the place which produced each in this era

2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World 2.2 Video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0AXxXR6KwY

1. Background of the Mongols:

2. Temujin a. Background

b. Expansion

c. Tactics that gave the Mongols the ability to conquer

d. Religiously tolerant - describe

3. Mongol Expansion into China

4. Mongol Expansion into Persia

2.2 Video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxPar0BcMo&feature=youtu.be1. What is the classic stereotype of the Mongols?

2. What aspects of the Mongol Legacy are more contemporary historians focusing on?

3. What important traits should we remember about herders?

4. Based off of John Green's explanation, what does egalitarian means?

5. What characteristics of the Mongols made them unlikely to become the most powerful nomadic group from Central Asia?

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6. Genghis Khan biography:a. Two interesting details from his early life?

b. What two innovations led to Khan’s victory in the civil war?

c. Why did promoting people by merit and bringing peasants into his tribe over the wealthy help Genghis Khan unify the nomadic tribes?

d. What title was Genghis Khan given in 1206? What does that title mean?

e. How far did the Mongol Empire stretch at the time of Genghis Khan's death? (From where to where?)

f. How many direct descendants of Genghis Khan are alive today?

7. What happened to Genghis Khan’s empire after his death? (Name the four Khanates)

8. Why were neither the Mongols or Alexander the Great were ever able to conquer India?

9. Why were the Mongols successful in conquering land and creating a unified empire? (4)

10. Complete the table:

5 Reasons the Mongols are AWESOME! 5 Reasons the Mongols are NOT so awesome

11. How did the Mongols intentionally spread the plague, according to one story?

12. Why is the Mongol legacy still debated today?

2.2 Summary

Describe the Mongol Empire (include the century they were most influential in)

Explain how the expansion of the Mongol Empire influenced Afro-Eurasian trade and communication

Other than fear, describe one way the Mongols established authority

Other than increased trade, describe one positive impact of the Mongols

2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean

2.3 Video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi6aLWr6HZw (Begin at 3:31, Stop at 7:02)

1. Extent of the trade route:

2. Types of goods exchanged along the Indian Ocean: a. Luxury goods:

b. Bulk goods:

3. What are monsoon winds and how were they helpful?

4. Maritime innovations:

5. Why did Indian Ocean trade experience growth during this period? Explain.

6. 2 examples of how the Indian Ocean trade routes changed culture. a. Srivijaya:

b. Swahili:

**STOP at 7:02**

2.3 Video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6XtBLDmPA0&feature=youtu.be

1. The “Monsoon Marketplace” gained popularity around ___________ but it really became popular between ___________ and ___________. It declined but then rose again during the ____________________ centuries.

2. Who participated in Indian Ocean trading?

3. What was commonly traded along these Indian Ocean trade networks?

4. What technologies enabled long-distance maritime trade and was also along through the network?

5. What was the connection between trade networks, centers of trade, and the spread of Islam?

6. Which does John Green argue is more important: political leaders who control territory and can impose taxes on trade or the merchants who set the terms of trade based on the market? Explain.

7. What role did Monsoon winds play in creating a lucrative Indian Ocean trade network?

8. How did Muslim scholars impact Indian Ocean trade?

9. Explain the diversity of the Indian Ocean trading network.

10. Why is the Silk Road more famous than the Indian Ocean trading network?

11. What role did Europe play in the Indian Ocean trading network?

12. How did Pax Mongolica impact Indian Ocean trade?

2.3 Summary

Identify the previously existing technologies identified in the acorn which encouraged trade in the Indian Ocean

Describe who Admiral Zheng He was

Explain how Admiral Zheng He encouraged significant technological and cultural transfers

Define Swahili city-states

Define diasporic communities and explain their impact

Explain how the environmental knowledge of monsoon winds helped expand/intensify trade in the Indian Ocean.

2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi6aLWr6HZw (Begin at 7:02)

1. Extent of the trade route:

2. Goods produced to trade: a. North Africa:

b. Southwest Africa:

3. Impact of the camel on Trans-Saharan trade:

4. How did the Trans-Saharan trade impact Mali?

2.4 Summary

Pick one of the technologies identified and explain how it encouraged interregional trade.

Describe 1 way the Mali government maintained authority.

Explain how Mali facilitated trade

What goods were traded across the Sahara?

How did Islam spread across the Sahara?

What was the effect of the spread of Islam on pre-existing beliefs?

What is Mansa Musa famous for AND in what century did he live

2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNRYTCdHKxU

1. Religion:

a. Syncretism Definition:

b. Zen Buddhism:

c. Neo-Confucianism:

d. Muslim Merchants and their impact:

2. Scientific consequences of trade:

3. Technological consequences of trade:

4. Growth of cities:

a. Hangzhou

5. Travelers along trade routes and their impact: a. Marco Polo

b. Ibn Battuta

2.5 Summary

Identify 1 of the examples of cultural traditions in the illustrative examples. Explain how it diffused and what the effect was of that diffusion.

Identify 1 of the examples of scientific/technological innovations in the illustrative examples. Explain how it diffused and what the effect was of that diffusion.

Pick one of the travelers identified in the Acorn, describe him or her, and explain why he or she is important

2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity2.6 Video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpIoR2slFuE

1. Agriculture a. Champa Rice and its impact:

b. Bananas and its impact:

2. Disease- Black Death a. How spread:

b. Caravanserai:

c. Effects of the spread:

d. Economic effect of Black Death:

2.6 Summary

Explain the diffusion of 1 of the crops identified in the illustrative example

Describe the diffusion of the bubonic plague and its effects