Networks of Exchange

What religion did West Africa convert to during the Middle Ages?

• Buddhism

• Islam

• Christianity

• Buddhism and Islam

What religion became prominent in East Africa during the Middle Ages?

• Bantu religion

• Swahili religion

• Islam

• Hinduism

What religions (plural!!!) spread to Southeast Asia?

• Christianity and Islam

• Hinduism and Daoism

• Buddhism and Islam

• Christianity and Judaism

Name a resource that was exchanged within the Trans-Saharan trade network?

What is Dar al-Islam?

• Everywhere that Islam is believed in prominently

• the Middle East

• South Asia

• North Africa

The Central Asian trade network that linked East Asia to Europe. An overland network of trade that mainly consisted of luxury goods and camel caravans.

• The Silk Road

• Trans-Saharan Network

• Indian Ocean Trade Network

• Trans-Siberian RR

The maritime (sea-based) trade network that connected East Africa, South Asia, Arabia, SE Asia, and East Asia together through sea trade.

• Trans-Saharan network

• Chinese junks

• Indian Ocean trade network

• The Silk Road

Which of the following innovations helped make travel more comfortable and easier on the Silk Road?

• stirrups and saddles

• compass

• lateen sail and chinese junks

• gunpowder and paper-making

Which innovation made travel easier and safer on the Indian Ocean trade routes?

• the compass

• camel caravans

• stirrups and saddles

• Chinese rockets

What do we call it when cultures and traditions blend together to create a new idea?

• Syncretism

• the Michael Jordan effect

• Globalization

• Multi-culturalism