APWH Unit 2 Exchange in the Indian Ocean and Trans-Saharan Trade

What is a result of the Indian Ocean slave trade?

• African slaves were forced to work on large plantations to grow cash crops.

• African words, musical styles and customs can be found in Oman and India.

• The banjo was brought to the New World and is today a part of Bluegrass music.

• Slaves were given manumission.

What environmental knowledge was necessary to trade in the Indian Ocean?

• You needed to know where the best ports were so you could trade your goods.

• You needed to know about the monsoon winds.

• You needed to know the current of the ocean.

• You needed to know when the moon would affect the tide so you could leave port at the best time.

What was the prosperity of Malacca (also spelled Melaka) based on?

• Agriculture

• Conquest

• Taxes

• Trade

Settlement of people away from their homeland are known as

• trade settlements

• Gujarat

• diaspora

• Calicut

Which of the following was NOT a result in China of Zheng He's voyages?

• Scholars worried that greater interaction with foreign cultures would threaten China's social order.

• Critics looked down on other cultures.

• Emperor Zhu Gaozhi continued the voyages to increase tax income from trade.

• Some thought the voyages too expensive.

Which religion was spread the most by the trans-Saharan trade?

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

• Hinduism

The Sultanate of Malacca was ended when the  _____________________ invaded and conquered the Strait of Malacca in an attempt to control the trade that flowed through it and Europe.

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• Indians

• Chinese

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Indian Ocean Trade?

• Increased demand for goods

• Formation of Swahili City-States

• The transfer of culture

• Uniform international currency

What role did monsoons play in the Indian Ocean Trade?

• Arab and East African merchants married women in Indian ports and stayed there.

• Zheng He was able to use the monsoons to increase the trade for China.

• Monsoons made it easier to trade across long distances.

• Europeans were able to take of the trade in the Indian Ocean because of the monsoons.

Which group increased the volume of trade across the Sahara Desert?

• Muslim merchants

• Christian merchants

• Jewish merchants

• Buddhists merchants