Trade Routes and Empries

Which trade pattern shown connected Asia to the Mediterranean

basin?

• Silk Road

• Trans-Saharan

• Indian Ocean

• Black Sea Trade

Which trade pattern shown existed around 1000 to 1500 A.D.

(C.E.) in Africa?

• Maritime Routes

• Trans-Saharan Routes

• Silk Routes

• Black Sea

New technology such as the windmill and the waterwheel spread

mainly from –

• South America

• North America

• Middle East

• Africa

The most valued items were spices that were used for many

purposes. The spice trade mainly revolved lands near the –

• Indian Ocean

• Baltic Sea

• Rivers in Europe

• Atlantic Ocean

Religious ideas diffused across trade routes. For example,

Buddhism spread from China influencing-

• Middle East

• West Africa

• Korea and Japan

• Latin America

Originally, the technology of paper was brought to the Muslims

from –

• India

• China

• West Africa

• Southeast Asia

India was the origin of--

• New crop Sugar Cane

• Waterwheels

• Compass

• Porcelian

The ideas of which religion spread from the Arabian Peninsula to

parts of West Africa, and then to Central and Southeast Asia?

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Islam

• Shinto

Which Asian archipelago is being described?

Characteristics:

• Mountainous

• Four main islands

• Surrounding seas provided protection and

trade routes

• Korea

• Japan

• China

• Vietnam

Which religion is indigenous to Japan and has been able to

coexist with Buddhism?

• Islam

• Judaism

• Hinduism

• Shinto