AP World History

Post-Classical Trade Networks

(600 C.E. to 1450 C.E.)

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Study Guide

Stayer Chapter 7


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Map Work

Reading Questions - Chapter 7

(Eurasia Trade Network)

  1. What lay behind the emergence of Silk Road commerce, and what kept it going for so many centuries? Page 284
  1. What made silk such a highly desired commodity across Eurasia? Page 286
  1. What were the major economic, social, and cultural consequences of Silk Road commerce? Page 287
  1. What accounted for the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Roads? Page 288
  1. What was the impact of disease along the Silk Roads? Page 290
  1. What lay behind the flourishing of Indian Ocean commerce in the post-classical millennium? Page 284
  1. In what ways did Indian influence register in Southeast Asia? Page 295
  1. What was the role of Swahili civilization in the world of Indian Ocean commerce? Page 299
  1. To what extent did the Silk Roads and the Sea Roads operate in a similar fashion? How did they differ? Page 300

(West African and American Trade Network)

  1. What changes did trans-Saharan trade bring to West Africa? Page 302
  1. In what ways did networks of interaction in the Western Hemisphere differ from those in the Eastern Hemisphere? Page 306

Unit Review

  1. What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads?
  1. Why did the peoples of the Eastern Hemisphere develop long-distance trade more extensively than did those of the Western Hemisphere?
  1. “Cultural change derived often from commercial exchange in the third-wave era.” What evidence from this chapter supports this observation?
  1. In what ways was Afro-Eurasia a single interacting zone, and in what respects was it a vast region of separate cultures and civilizations?

Identify

Who? What? Where? When?

  1. Silk Roads
  2. Black Death
  3. Indian Ocean Trading Network
  4. Swahili Civilization
  5. Srivijaya
  6. Great Zimbabwe
  7. Sand Roads
  8. Trans-Saharan Slave trade
  9. American Web
  10. Pochetca

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