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Trade Routes 1200-1450 (Silk Road (Major Cities (Kashgar (Modern-day…
Trade Routes 1200-1450
Silk Road
Exchanged goods
Exchanged goods: Silk, tea, dyes, precious stones, porcelain, spices (ginger, cinnamon, etc.), bronze, gold artifacts, medicine, perfume, ivory, rice, paper, and gunpowder 
Religion/Culture
Reglion: Religion was spread all over Eurasia partially Islam, and Buddhism having the most popularity. This spread of religion was caused by the appeal to merchants, merchants converted to Islam or Buddhism, settled in new lands and began to spread the religion, often adapting to local traditions
Technologies
Technologies: Various technologies/innovations came along during the period of the Silk road China, India, and Arabia were the main exporters of new technologies and innovations such as the Chinese method of producing paper, silk, and gunpowder, and agricultural methods. India & Arabia had many innovations of mathematics and sciences abroad from numeral systems, base ten decimals, astronomy, and navigation.
Major Cities
Kashgar (Modern-day China): Kashgar was a central trading hub for China and the middle East as it layed between Pamirs mountains are the Middle eastern desert
Samarkand (Modern-day Uzbekistan): largest market city on the Silk road ruled by various empires. The city was very open to all merchants, traders, and artisans of any field long as the city law was obeyed creating this to become a very popular market city but also diverse goods
Trans-Saharan Routes
Caravans
Definition: a group of people, especially traders, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
Caravansarai
Definition: an inn with a central courtyard for travelers in the desert regions of Asia or North Africa.
Camel Saddle
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Trade info.
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Wealth from the gold-salt trade led to the rise of West Aftrican Kingdoms-Ghana, Mali, Songhai
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Indian Ocean Routes
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Mombasa
Goods
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Buddhism and Hinduism was spread from India using the Indian Ocean Routes (at least, the Indian Ocean Routes had a big impact on this route)
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At first, sea trade was slow coming. They stayed by the coasts and only traveled short distances
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