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STANDARD WHI.10a) locating major trade routes.
During the medieval period, several major trading routes developed in the Eastern Hemisphere. These trading routes developed among Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Major trade patterns of the Eastern Hemisphere from 1000 to 1500 A.D. (C.E.)
• _______________________________ across Asia to the Mediterranean basin
• _______________________________ routes across the __________________ Ocean
• _______________________________ routes across North _______________________
• ____________________European links with the ___________________________ Sea
• _______________________________ _______________________ sea and river trade
• South ___________________ Sea and lands of _____________________________ Asia

STANDARD WHI.10b) identifying technological advances and transfers, networks of economic interdependence, and cultural interactions.
Regional trade networks and long-distance trade routes in the Eastern Hemisphere aided the diffusion and exchange of technology and culture among Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Goods
_______________ from West Africa
_______________from lands around the Indian Ocean
_______________from India, China, the Middle East, and later Europe
_______________from China and Persia
_______________from the Baltic region
Technology
_______________from China through the Muslim world to Byzantium and Western Europe
New _______________from India (e.g., for making sugar)
_______________and _______________from the Middle East
_______________: Compass from China, lateen sail from Indian Ocean region
Ideas
Spread of religions across the hemisphere
_______________from China to Korea and Japan
_______________and Buddhism from India to Southeast Asia
_______________into West Africa, Central and Southeast Asia
_______________and _______________money from China

Reading Questions
What is a trade route?
What was exchanged in early times on these trade routes? Between which regions of the world?
What has resulted from the trade routes?
In what 3 ways was Asia able to trade with Europe?
What items were traded along these routes?
What rivers did the traders use to ship goods? What items were exchanged in this way?
The traders of which European country carried the Asian goods to northern Europe?
How did the Silk Road get its name?
How were goods carried across the desert?
What goods were traded along the Black Sea?
What 3 west African civilizations became wealthy from the Trans-Saharan trade?
What 2 main items were traded on the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Which group traded with the West Africans in the north?
Why was salt an important trade item?
What area became the crossroads in the expanding international trade that stretched from Arabia to China?
What 3 items did Arabs, Chinese, Indians, and Persians trade with southeast Asia?
What 2 items did Southeast Asia have to trade?