Economic Systems
•As societies develop, they affect and are affected by the ways that they produce, exchange, and consume goods and services.
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Improved commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade and expanded the geographical range of existing trade routes— including the Silk Roads—promoting the growth of powerful new trading cities
A. What are commercial practices? What are some examples?
B. What was the existing range of trade routes and what did expand to?
C. What are some examples of powerful new trading cities?
The growth of interregional trade in luxury goods was encouraged by innovations in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies, including the caravanserai, forms of credit, and the development of money economies.
D. What are some examples of luxury goods traded during this era along the Silk Road?
E. What are caravanserai?
Demand for luxury goods increased in AfroEurasia. Chinese, Persian, and Indian artisans and merchants expanded their production of textiles and porcelains for export; manufacture of iron and steel expanded in China.
F. What are textiles? What is an example traded along the Silk Road?
H. Which of these Chinese cities are included in the trade route shown on the map?
Kashgar
Guangzhou
Beijing
Jingdezhen
I. Between Historical Point 1, 2 and 3, which does this image BEST exemplify? What part of the Silk Road does this image represent, and what is the evidence?
J. Between Historical Point 1, 2 and 3, which does this image BEST exemplify?
K. Between Historical Point 1, 2 and 3, which does this image BEST exemplify?
L. Between Historical Point 1, 2 and 3, which does this image BEST exemplify? What part of the Silk Road does this image represent, and what is the evidence?
M. Between Historical Point 1, 2 and 3, which does this image BEST exemplify? What cultures, religions or nationalities along the Silk Road does this image represent, and what is the evidence?
N. Between Historical Point 1, 2 and 3, which does this image BEST exemplify? What culture, religion or nationality along the Silk Road does this image represent, and what is the evidence?
O. Between Historical Point 1, 2 and 3, which does this image BEST exemplify?
P. What purpose do you think the features of the building had?