Explain the environmental effects of the various networks of exchange in afro-eurasia

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Explain the environmental effects of the various networks of exchange in afro-eurasia

Unit 2 Networks of Exchange

AN OVERVIEW OF THE UNIT:

2.1 The Silk Roads

2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World

2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean

2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity

2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity

2.7 Comparison of Economic Exchange

Era 1: 1200-1450 CE

As you continue your study of the period c. 1200–c. 1450, you’ll learn how areas of the world were linked through trade and how these connections affected people, cultures, and environments.

  • Explain the causes and effects of growth of networks of exchange after 1200.

  • Explain the process of state building and decline in Eurasia over time.

  • Explain how the expansion of empires influenced trade and communication over time.

  • Explain the significance of the Mongol Empire in larger patterns of continuity and change.

  • Explain the role of environmental factors in the development of networks of exchange from 1200 to 1450.

  • Explain the causes and effects of the growth of trans-Saharan trade.

  • Explain the intellectual and cultural effects of the various exchange networks in Afro-Eurasia from 1200 to 1450.

  • Explain the environmental effects of the various exchange networks in Afro-Eurasia from 1200 to 1450.

  • Explain the similarities and differences among various exchange networks in Afro-Eurasia from 1200 to 1450.

On The Exam

8%–10% of exam score

MAP ASSIGNMENT AND QUIZ SCHEDULE:

Unit 2 will include two MAP TESTS! The lists for the maps are below. You may either use a map from the set I keep in the classroom, or if you would like a better quality map, go to the page here on the website for Geography and find a printable map that is more to your liking. Map One actually correlates to the Unit 1 content, and Map Two more directly aligns with Unit 2.

The map tests will be a numbered map.

Yes, there are a lot of places: BUT, you will find that you already know a lot of them :)

MAP ONE

  1. China

  2. Japan

  3. Korea

  4. Vietnam

  5. Indonesia

  6. Cambodia

  7. Thailand

  8. Myanmar (Burma)

  9. India

  10. Bangladesh

  11. Pakistan

  12. Ethiopia

  13. Somalia

  14. Kenya

  15. Tanzania

  16. Zambia

  17. Zimbabwe

  18. South Africa

  19. Democratic Republic of the Congo

  20. Mali

  21. Morocco

  22. Algeria

  23. Libya

  24. Egypt

  25. Iran (Persia)

  26. Iraq

  27. Saudi Arabia

  28. Turkey

  29. Italy

  30. France

  31. Spain

  32. Portugal

  33. Germany

  34. Britain

  35. Mexico

  36. Guatemala

  37. Venezuela

  38. Ecuador

  39. Peru

  40. Chile

Silk Road/Silk Routes

Kashgar

Samarkand

Bills of exchange

Banking houses

Paper money

Luxury goods

Caravanserai

Caravan

Camel saddle

Persia

Artisans

Merchants

Textiles

Porcelain

Melaka

Mongols

Marco Polo

Ibn Battuta

Mongol Empire (political term)

Mongols (cultural term)

state building

collapse (of an empire)

imperial states

khanates

Chagatai Khanate

Golden Horde

Ilkhanate

Yuan Dynasty

Greco-Islamic medical knowledge

numbering systems

Uyghur script

technological transfers

cultural transfers

2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean

2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity

2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity

What are the networks of exchange in Afro

The Silk Roads allowed for the exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases across Afro-Eurasia.

What were the intellectual and cultural effects of the various networks of exchange in Afro

As exchange networks intensified, an increasing number of travelers within Afro–Eurasia wrote about their travels. . Increased cross-cultural interactions resulted in the diffusion of literary, artistic, and cultural traditions, as well as scientific and technological innovation.

What are some of the positive environmental effects of the various networks of exchange from 1200 to 1450?

1200 to 1450. A positive environmental effect of the various trade networks was the diffusion of crops. Fast ripening, drought resistant champa rice was one of these crop diffusions. It allowed for a guaranteed crop yield and encouraged terrace farming.

What were the environmental consequences of trade?

In addition, expanded trade tends to increase the scale of production for the world as a whole, meaning that the total volume of pollution and environmental damage is likely to increase. Trade also necessarily involves energy use for transportation, with resulting air pollution and other environmental impacts.