TRADE ROUTESLand, Sea, & Sand Trade Routes

500-1500 ce

SILK ROADS

Silk Roads

Trade Routes of Africa

Using the Strayer textbooks, label the following on your maps.

Draw in the trade routes and label each.  INDIAN OCEAN ROUTES map p 342

Include the cities: Mogadishu, Mombasa, Kilwa, Calicut, Malacca, Guangzho

SILK ROADS map on p335 Include the cities: Tyre, Antioch, Bukhara, Dunhuang, Chang’an

TRANS-SAHARAN ROUTES map p 350 Include the cities: Timbuktu, Fez, Tripoli 

For each trade route, look at the goods that were traded along the route in the charts or text. Choose 5 items that you think were the most important trade goods, and write them along the trade routes.

SILK ROADS p 337 INDIAN OCEAN ROUTES p 342 TRANS-SAHARAN ROUTES p 343

Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, & Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

On your maps, draw in the basic trade routes and label each.

Write the names of the main trade goods on that route.

SILK ROADS map p335, goods p 337 INDIAN OCEAN ROUTES map p 342, goods

p 343 TRANS-SAHARAN ROUTES map p 350,

goods = Gold, Salt, Slaves & page 349

Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, & Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

On your maps, ADD: SILK ROADS –

Buddhism FROM South Asia TO Central, SE, & E Asia DISEASES (like Bubonic Plague, Measles, &Smallpox) Islam FROM the Middle East TO central and E Asia

INDIAN OCEAN ROUTES— Buddhism FROM South Asia TO SE Asia Islam FROM the Arabian peninsula TO East Africa & SE

Asia TRANS-SAHARAN ROUTES –

Islam FROM North Africa to West Africa

Land, Sea, & Sand Trade

Continuities and Similarities500bce to 1400 ce

TRADE LED TO: Cultural Diffusion

Christianity Buddhism Islam Languages Technologies

The Spread of Diseases! Bubonic

Plaque, Smallpox, ????

CONTINUITIES and SIMILARITIES Trade between ecological zones started the

larger trade systems. Trade was often “relay” trade (and not between

“countries or states”) IMPORTANCE OF NOMADS in Africa and

Central Asia to carry trade goods.

CONTINUITIES and SIMILARITIES Cities and ports were trade centers. “Trade” in these centers made long term

relationships that led to cultural diffusion.

CONTINUITIES and SIMILARITIES “Luxury” items made up a significant

portion of the goods traded on the routes-they fostered the trade. Silk textiles, porcelain, cotton textiles, spices,

fragrances, precious metals, ivory, wine