WorksheetsUnits of Exchange
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 15mins
What was the importance of the camel?
The camel was able to eat a lot of food often
The camel had many offspring
The camel allowed people to cross the Sahara desert due to its endurance
The camel was faster than the horse
What is the Chinese term for paper money?
Coins
Flying cash
Bills of exchange
Bill of sale
Overland trade between Europe to Asia on the Silk Road increased with
The revival of commercial cities, such as Samarkand, along the way.
The discovery of gold in the Hindu Kush.
The collapse of the Roman empire.
The development of a new breed of camel.
Malian Emperor Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 can best be understood in the context of which of the following?
The expansion of Islam throughout Afro-Eurasia
The development of new transportation technologies
The diffusion of African culture to the Middle East
The territorial expansion of West African empires
Ibn Battuta traveled widely across the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa in the fourteenth century. His travels serve as evidence for the
unifying influence of Islam
excellent condition of roads in Africa and Asia
political unity of Africa and Asia
widespread use of paper money
The map shows which of the following empires at its greatest extent?
The empire of Alexander the Great
The Mongol Empire
The Russian Empire
The Byzantine Empire
Based on the maps and your knowledge of world history, which of the following best describes the effect of the spread of Islam on Indian Ocean trade?
It led to the expansion and intensification of commerce along already existing trade routes.
It led to the disappearance of previously established trade networks.
It led to an expansion of land-based caravan trade but also to a decline of maritime trade.
It led to the first creation of trade links between previously isolated world regions.
The photograph below shows a fourteenth century C.E. mosque in the city of Xi’an, central China. This image most clearly supports which of the following conclusions about the spread of Islam?
Early Muslim communities in China adopted local architectural styles for their religious buildings.
Political instability in fourteenth-century China encouraged the spread of Islam.
Islam spread to China before Buddhism did.
Early Muslim communities in China disguised their mosques as Confucian academies.
A significant example of the interaction among Indian, Arab, and European societies by 1200 C.E. was the transfer of knowledge of
iron and copper mining techniques
the flying shuttle and spinning jenny
the science of optics and lens design
numerals and the decimal system
Based on the content of the inscription, Adityawarman’s Malayapura kingdom most likely participated in the communication and exchange networks of the
Swahili city-states and the Arabian Peninsula
maritime eastern Indian Ocean trade
overland Silk Roads
islands of Polynesia
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, territories under Mongol control benefited from which of the following?
Widespread adoption of Confucian family hierarchies
Trade that facilitated the spread of Christianity throughout the Indian Ocean region
Trade that tied several distinct regional networks together
Widespread adoption of Buddhist religious practices
The development of Indian Ocean trade routes in the period 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. and the development of transatlantic trade routes in the period 1450 C.E. to 1600 C.E. were similar in that both depended on
the impetus of missionizing religions
understanding of currents and wind patterns
the political consolidation of newly conquered regions into empires
innovations in ship design that originated in Europe
The establishment of the Mongol Empire directly facilitated which of the following?
Increased cultural and technological exchange between the Islamic world and China
The development of Mongolian as the primary written language of administration across most of Eurasia
The spread of Persian culture into Central Asia
Improved ship designs and navigation techniques for oceanic commerce
Voyages such as those referred to in the third paragraph were most directly facilitated by which of the following?
A decrease in pirate activity following Zheng He’s naval expeditions
Merchants’ understanding of the patterns of the monsoon winds
An increase in the use of new forms of credit, such as paper money
Technological transfers from Europe, such as the compass
The first paragraph most directly illustrates how increasing regional interactions led to which of the following developments in the Indian Ocean in the period 1200–1450?
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The establishment of diasporic merchant communities
The establishment of new trading cities
The introduction of new cultural traditions
The emergence of syncretic belief systems
The map below shows what significant economic developments?
Trade connections that linked the Hellenistic and Mauryan empires to African cities from 300 through 150 B.C.E.
Trading networks that promoted the growth of new cities from 600 C.E. through 1450 C.E
Chinese dominance of Indian Ocean trading networks because of the voyages of Zheng He in the 1400s C.E.
Changes in Indian Ocean trading networks that resulted from technological innovations from 1450 C.E. through 1750 C.E.
The thirteenth-century map of Constantinople shown below indicates that the city
was located on an island
was highly fortified against outside attacks
tolerated many religions
looked down on trade and commerce
The lines on the map below illustrate which of the following?
Spread of Hinduism
Spread of Christianity
Extent of trade routes
Seasonal migrations of nomads
The passage above best illustrates which of the following?
Muslims’ examination of their own cultural and economic decline after the Crusades
The debt the Arab world owed Europe for preserving Arab scientific knowledge and cultural history
The reason European industrial expertise far surpassed that of the Arab world
The effects of interregional contact on the development of European culture and technology
The illustration would be most useful to a historian studying which of the following?
Transportation and maritime technologies
Large-scale trading organizations
Geographic patterns of currents and winds in the Indian Ocean
The expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate
The map demonstrates which of the following about the Indian Ocean trade?
Monsoons prevented trade from taking place along the East African coast.
Europeans were active in bringing goods from West Africa to the Indian Ocean.
Trade involved most of the regions bordering the Indian Ocean as well as China.
The most important item traded across the Indian Ocean was silk.
Between 200 B.C.E. and 1450 C.E., the Silk Roads linked which of the following?
The Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean
North Africa and western Europe
East Asia and the Mediterranean Sea
The Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea
Which of the following best describes an effect of the establishment of the Mongol Empire upon Silk Road long distance trade?
The Silk Road trade declined because the Mongol merchants preferred to use maritime long-distance trade networks instead.
The Silk Road trade increased because the Mongol conquests helped connect more regions of Eurasia economically and commercially.
The Silk Road trade was not affected by the Mongol conquests because the tribal and nomadic nature of Mongol society meant that Mongol demand for luxury goods was virtually nonexistent.
The Silk Road trade collapsed following the Mongol conquests because most trading cities along the Silk Roads were destroyed and never recovered.
