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Medieval Trade Systems
Learning Goal!
• Analyze how the Silk Route and the African gold-salt trade facilitated the spread of ideas and explain how the slave trade in East Africa developed.
Take notes in the appropriate
spot on your green Medieval
Trade Systems note page.
This will be glued on p. 22
Primary Trade Routes
• Silk Roads (Eurasia)
• “Sea Roads” (Indian Ocean)
• Sand Roads (Sahara)
Step 1: Label the following
locations on your map
Indian Ocean
China
Chang’an
East Africa
•China
•Gun powder
•Paper
•Silk
•Mirrors
•Porcelain
•India
•Cotton fabric
•Spices
•Gems
•Middle East
•Dates
•Nuts
•Dyes
•Perfumes
•Olive oil
•Buddhism
•Islam
•Diseases
Draw the Silk Road
CHINA
Silk Roads
• Land-based “Relay Trade”
• Began as indirect trade routes
• Prospered when large and powerful civilizations began to provide security for their merchants and travelers
Goods in Transit
• Typically large camel caravans
• Why camels?
• Traveled over harsh and dangerous steppes, deserts& oases
• Most of the goods were luxury products
• Silk came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system
• Used as currency in Central Asia
• Symbol of high status
• Also associated with the sacred
•China
•Gun powder
•Paper
•Silk
•Porcelain
•India
•Cotton fabric
•Spices, gems
•Middle East
•Nuts
•Dyes
•Perfumes
•Olive oil
•Buddhism
•Islam
•Diseases
Silk Road Trade
Draw the “Sea Roads” - Indian Ocean Trade
Sahara
DesertHimalayas
Taklimakan Desert
Indian Ocean•Slaves
•Gold
•Iron
•Tortoise Shell
•Ivory
•Islam spread to
cities along the
East African
coast & to
Southeast Asia
Sea Roads, cont.• Islam spread to the east coast of Africa & southeast
Asia via the Indian Ocean trade complex• East coast of Africa: slaves were traded away to
Middle East/Asia
Sea “Roads”• Indian Ocean connected people through the Eastern
Hemisphere• Ocean transportation was cheaper than the Silk Road• Ships could carry larger and heavier cargo• Used the monsoon seasons to their advantage
Sand Roads, the Gold – Salt Trade
Sahara
DesertHimalayas
Taklimakan Desert
Indian Ocean
Benin
Timbuktu
•Gold from West Africa
•Salt across the Sahara
•Slaves
•Ivory
•Nuts
•Dates Cloth
•Islam
•Sub-Saharan West Africa is
pulled into the Muslim trade
network
Sand Roads
• Connected North Africa and the Mediterranean world with West Africa
• Made possible with the introduction of the camel
• Caravans would include as many as 5,000 camels and would take up to 70 days to reach their destination!
• Sub-Saharan West Africa = important part of the Muslim trade network
Culture in Transit
• Islam and Arabic
http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf
Flip your green paper over
On the back, take notes
about the West African
Kingdoms of Ghana &
Mali
5th century: rise of powerful kingdoms based on control of trade
routes
Dominated for 1000 years- led to exchange of ideas, goods, rise of
cities, and wealth ($$$)
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Wealthy West African kingdoms:
Ghana & Mali
Ghana
• Iron weapons = controlled region & trade routes ($)
•King taxed all trade, esp. gold & salt
•Large army
•Ghana = gold
Mali
• Conquered Ghana (1240)controlled gold & salt mines
• Leaders converted to Islam (Mansa Musa- king)
• Built giant mosque in Timbuktu, a major trading city
Sent to the Arabian
Peninsula & Asia
Why were slaves taken
from East Africa?
Muslims -= not allowed
to enslave fellow
Muslims
Many civilizations
depended on a
cheap source of labor
Start of the East African Slave
Trade
Next, you will complete the purple
Kingdoms of Africa Webquest
Turn the webquest in when done!
If you have extra time & didn’t finish
your Genghis Khan assignment, do
so now.
Mansa Musa Crash Course
video with questions
Awesome song
Review Questions1. What empire did Mansa Musa rule?
2. What was the primary religion that spread on
the trade routes?
3. True or False: the “sea roads” were across the
Sahara in North Africa
4. What were the 2 major goods traded FROM
West Africa?