Overview comparison
Geography and transportation
Goods traded: luxury vs. bulk
Merchant communities and organization
Cultural exchange compared
Similarities across all three networks
Why the AP exam compares them
Primary sources
Marco Polo on Silk Road trade (c. 1300)
Ibn Battuta comparing trade cities (c. 1355)
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