Commercial practices emerged in order to:

• facilitate the development of trade networks

• facilitate a growing trade in luxury goods by increasing access to credit and currency

• finance Chinese artisan businesses

• finance imperial conquests by supporting the purchase of weapons

What are caravansaries?

• rest stops built along the Trans-Saharan trade routes

• banking systems that allowed the exchange of credit for merchants

• rest stops across the Indian Ocean trade routes

• rest stops across the Silk Road trade routes

Trade routes that started in China and expanded throughout Central Asia, India, and as far as the Mediterranean was known as the __________________.

• Trans-Saharan Network

• Indian Ocean Network

• Silk Roads

• Mediterranean Network

What event revived European interest in Eastern goods?

• The fall of Constaninople

• The great schism within the Christian church

• The Crusades

• The collapse of the Mongol Khanates

Kashgard and Samarkand are examples of

• cities that grew thanks to the rise of merchant travel crossing the Indian Ocean Basin trade routes

• cities that grew thanks to the rise of merchant travel crossing the Trans-Saharan trade routes

• cities that grew thanks to the rise of merchant travel crossing the Sub-Saharan trade routes

• cities that grew thanks to the rise of merchant travel crossing the Silk Road trade routes

How did the Mongol conquests tend to encourage trade along the Silk Roads?

• they would let traders borrow their horses

• decreasing risk of bandit attacks

• reducing number of local rulers collecting tributes from trade caravans

• they lowered taxes

This khanate was located in China and assimilated Chinese style of government.

• Chagatai Khanate

• Il-Khanate

• Golden Horde Khanate

• Yuan Dynasty

Territories under Mongol control benefited from _____________.

• Trade that tied several distinct regional networks together

• Trade that facilitated the spread of Christianity

• Widespread adoption of Confucian family customs

• Adoption of Buddhist religious practices

Which of the following resulted from the fragmentation of the Mongol Empire and the death of Genghis Khan?

• spread of Islam into East Asia

• increased trade between Africa and Asia

• collapse of Byzantine Empire

• development of khanates in Central Asia

Pax Mongolica refers to the time period when__________

• Mongols were conquering territories under Genghis Khan's grandchildren

• Mongol khans were still split into various clans

• Mongols were experiencing a extended peace period of about 100 years

• Mongols were loosing influence through out Central Asia