Networks of Exchange unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
Pax Mongolica
Marco Polo and cross-cultural accounts
Forced relocation of artisans
Effects of exchange on the environment
Mongol Empire
Timbuktu
Yam system
Camel saddle
Networks are not selective
Maritime technology transfer
Bills of exchange
Sugarcane and the plantation model
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Dhow
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Plague and scapegoating
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Monsoon winds
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Black Death
3 ptsFree response
3 ptsSHORT-ANSWER QUESTION. Read the description of the source. Source — Ibn Battuta, the Rihla, an account of travels dictated in Morocco in the 1350s. Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan legal scholar trained in Islamic law, describes journeys of roughly thirty years that carried him across North Africa, Arabia, East Africa, Central Asia, India, and the Malay archipelago, and by his account to China. He records serving as a judge in the Delhi Sultanate and in the Maldives on the strength of his legal training alone, notes the hospitality he received from Muslim merchants and rulers in each place, and comments repeatedly on whether local practice — particularly regarding the seclusion of women — conforms to what he considers proper.
A. Briefly describe one way the source illustrates the extent of interregional connection in the fourteenth century.
B. Briefly explain one way the spread of Islam facilitated trade across Afro-Eurasia between 1200 and 1450.
C. Briefly explain one consequence of expanded interregional trade for a society in Afro-Eurasia in this period.