Indian Ocean Basin Trade

Find THREE technological innovations created in East Asia.

• Junk Ships

• Paper Money

• Banking Houses

• Astrolabe

• Sternpost Rudder

In the Indian Ocean Basin, ship design (junks and dhows) and maritime technology (compass, astrolabe) increased trade, but traders still relied on

• monsoon winds.

• European maps.

• caravan organization.

• a universal language of trade.

Which of the following statements about the effect of monsoon pattern on Indian Ocean trade are correct.

• Unpredictable monsoon patterns facilitated trade on the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf

• Changing wind patterns made nonstop round trips possible.

• Predictable monsoon patterns led to trade being conducted in stages

• The size and stability of large ships did not play a role in how many mariners plotted their course around monsoon patterns

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

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

Which is true about the Indian Ocean Trade?
1) It spread Buddhism to West Africa
2) It made many cities grow and become rich
3) the traders determined the price of goods
4) it spread Islam to Indonesia

• 1, 2 and 3 only
• 1, 3 and 4 only
• 2, 3 and 4 only
• 1, 2, 3 and 4

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

• Gobi

• Taklimakan

• Savana

• Sahara

This ocean is found between Africa, Asia, and Australia

• Atlantic Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean

What is bartering?

• A product

• Giving money away

• Trading without using money

• Trading by using money

Indian Ocean trade was like the silk roads in that it was 

• a one way route in which goods traveled
• the way pirates traveled
• a network of trade routes
• the only way to sell silk

Different Indian ocean trade routes connected various _______ cities.

• port
• Muslim
• African
• rich