Silk Roads
A map of the Silk Roads showing the general products from each region.
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The Silk Roads were a network of trade connected by many small city-states that traveled on land, and traded luxury goods for the rich rather than basic human needs.
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Black Death
Indian Ocean Trading Network
A map of the Indian Ocean trade network
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A trade network over the seas and oceans in which items were traded in bulk and many more common use items were traded. This also led to the betterment of ships.
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Srivijaya
A map of Srivijaya
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Srivijaya was an Empire in southeast Asia (specifically Malaysia) that controlled a major choke point in trade and heavily taxed ships that traveled through the Indian Ocean trade system. It adopted Indian culture especially Buddhism.
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Borobudur
The northwest view of the monument
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The largest Buddhist monument ever built, this mountainous ten-level monument with an elaborate carving program, was probably built in the ninth century C.E. by the Sailendras rulers of central Java. This is an outstanding example of cultural exchange and syncretism.
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Swahili civilization
Great Zimbabwe
Sand Roads
Ghana, Mali, Songhay
Trans-Saharan slave trade
Slaves travelling with their masters
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A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the twelfth century C.E., exporting West African slaves captured in raids across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants in Islamic North Africa; the difficulty of travel across the desert limited the scope of this trade.
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American Web
A map showing the locations of the civilizations in the AMericas
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A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the Americas; although less intense and complete than the Afro-Eurasian trade networks, this web provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas.
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