Common Core - Global 9.4
An Age of Expanding Connections, ca. 500 – ca. 1500
9.4 RISE OF TRANSREGIONAL TRADE NETWORKS: During the classical and postclassical eras, transregional trade networks emerged and/or expanded. These networks of exchange influenced the economic and political development of states and empires. (Standards: 2, 3, 4; Themes: ID, MOV, GEO, ECO, TECH, EXCH)
9.4a
Afro-Eurasian transregional trade networks grew across land and bodies of water.
Students will identify the location of the transregional trade networks noting regional connections between the Indian Ocean complex, Mediterranean Sea complex, Silk Roads, and Trans-Saharan routes.
9.4b
New technologies facilitated and improved interregional travel during this era by allowing people to traverse previously prohibitive physical landscapes and waterways.
Students will examine the technologies that facilitated and improved interregional travel along the Indian Ocean and Trans-Saharan networks of exchange.
9.4c
Interregional travelers, traders, missionaries, and nomads carried products and natural resources and brought with them enslaved people and ideas that led to cultural diffusion.
Students will identify and explain the importance of at least two key resources and/or products and/or luxury items vital to exchanges along the Indian Ocean complex, Mediterranean Sea complex, Silk Roads, and Trans-Saharan routes.
Students will identify trade networks involved in the exchange of enslaved people and explore the nature of slavery during this time period.
Students will examine the diffusion of religious ideas along the Indian Ocean complex, Silk Roads, and Trans-Saharan routes.
Students will examine the travels of Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, and Marco Polo and the influence of their journeys.
9.4d
Control of transregional trade and economic growth contributed to the emergence and expansion of political states.
Students will examine the emergence and expansion of political states along the Mediterranean Sea complex (Byzantine Empire and rise of Ottoman Empire) and Trans-Saharan routes (Ghana and Mali).