Trade/Africa

Gold made its way from west to east Africa along these trade routes:

• Trans-Atlantic
• Trans-Mediterranean
• Tran-Saharan
• Trans-Indian

During the Middle Ages, traders often used the ______ Sea to connect the Mediterranean to Asia.

• Black
• Baltic
• Red
• North

This desert in north Africa was crossed by traders moving salt and gold.

• Gobi
• Taklimakan
• Savana
• Sahara

The most popular items traded along these routes were spices and cotton.

• Trans-Saharan
• Indian Ocean
• Mediterranean
• Silk Road

This set of trade routes connected China to the West/ Mediterranean Sea

• Silk Road
• Cotton Road
• North European
• Trans-Saharan

Buddhism started in this country

• China
• Japan
• Saudi Arabia
• India

Trans-Saharan trade brought this religion to West Africa from the Arabian peninsula

• Christianity
• Islam
• Buddhism
• Hinduism

A negative effect of increased trade was the spread of...

• Knowledge
• Ideas
• Technology
• Bubonic Plague

Buddhism is to Japan as ____ is to West Africa.

• Christianity
• Buddhism
• Islam
• Zoroastrianism

Cultures spread with trade

• Cultural diffusion
• Cultural isolation
• Cultural inclusion
• Cultural seclusion