Geography and logistics of Silk Road trade
What traveled the Silk Roads
The Mongol effect on the Silk Roads
Cultural exchange along the Silk Roads
Decline of the Silk Roads
Primary sources
Marco Polo describes Chinese paper money (c. 1298)
A Venetian merchant describes Tabriz (c. 1340)
Key figures
Vocabulary
Unit 2 topics
Unit 2 overview2.1The Silk Roads2.10Comparison of the Effects of Connectivity2.2The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World2.3Exchange in the Indian Ocean2.4Trans-Saharan Trade Routes2.5Cultural Consequences of Connectivity2.6Environmental Consequences of Connectivity2.7Comparison of Economic Exchange2.8Effects of the Mongol Empire2.9Causes and Effects of the Bubonic Plague