Unit 2.1 AP World

Caravanserais were found upon several trade routes, but were best known on the Silk Road. What are Caravanserais?

• An Open Air Markets

• An Oasis

• A place of rest

• A Mosque

A Chinese ship made for hauling cargo.

• Dhow

• Junk

• Lanteen

• Caravel

______________________________ was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe.

• The Great Schism

• Hanseatic League

• Guilder League

• Christian Commercial Organization

___________________________ is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought.

• Acculturation

• Syncretism

• Socialization

• Cultural Diffusion

European _____________ ______________ were institutions that loaned money for merchants.

• Banking Houses

• Coffee Houses

• Insurance Houses

• Business Loans

A time period of extended peace on the Silk Road..

• Pax Mongolia

• Pax Romana

• Indian Ocean Pax

• Convassarai

Trade city in Western China that was a popular trading post on the Silk Road from 1200-1450.

• Kashghar

• Samarkand

• Bactria

• Beijing

Chinese term for paper money.

• Flying Monkees

• Flying Cash

• Bills of Exchange

• Bill of sale

Which was not a contribution of the Chinese?

• Compass

• Silk

• Gunpowder

• Lanteen Sale

When there was instability and violence on the Silk Road trade shifted

• North to the Steppes

• East to Japan

• South to Indian Ocean Trade

• All trade ceased