Silk Road
Exchanged goods
Religion/Culture
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Technologies
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 
Indian Ocean Routes
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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 
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Mogadishu
Malindi
Trans-Saharan Routes
City States of the Swahili Coast The Swahili Coast was a huge trade center
Mombasa
Caravans
Caravansarai
Camel Saddle 
Exchanged goods: Silk, tea, dyes, precious stones, porcelain, spices (ginger, cinnamon, etc.), bronze, gold artifacts, medicine, perfume, ivory, rice, paper, and gunpowder 
Goods
Zanzibar
Ceramics
Ivory
Gold
Grain
Perfume
Trade info.
Gold-salt trade brought sun-saharan Aftrica tinto the global trade network(thank to camel saddles)
Spices
Wealth from the gold-salt trade led to the rise of West Aftrican Kingdoms-Ghana, Mali, Songhai
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Islam also spread to west Africa via Arab merchants and converted rulers such as Mansa Musa
Cities like Timbuktu became major trading outposts and an expansion in the islamic world
Sailboats/canoes were used for transportation. They used the monsoons to get to places
Disease was brought over by rats on ships
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
At first, sea trade was slow coming. They stayed by the coasts and only traveled short distances
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. 
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)
Camel saddles allowed travelers to take supplies elsewhere to trade over long distances
Definition: a group of people, especially traders, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
Definition: an inn with a central courtyard for travelers in the desert regions of Asia or North Africa.