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What is meant by “Trans-Saharan trade” in this lesson?Trade routes and cities: Routes connected North and West Africa through goods, people, and ideas.
What is meant by “Indian Ocean ports” in this lesson?Trade routes and cities: Ports supported exchange shaped by winds, navigation, and merchant communities.
What is meant by “Silk Road cities” in this lesson?Trade routes and cities: Cities served as exchange and service centers along overland networks.
What is meant by “Commercial institutions” in this lesson?Trade routes and cities: Credit, partnerships, and local rules supported trade while varying across regions.
What is meant by “Urban diversity” in this lesson?Trade routes and cities: Trading cities often included communities with different languages and practices.
What is meant by “Network resilience” in this lesson?Trade routes and cities: Routes could shift when hazards, policies, or conflicts changed.
What is meant by “Mongol expansion” in this lesson?The Mongol era: Mongol conquests created a vast empire through military force and political organization.
What is meant by “Conquest violence” in this lesson?The Mongol era: Conquests could devastate populations and settlements.
What is meant by “Imperial connections” in this lesson?The Mongol era: Mongol rule linked distant regions through administration and movement.
What is meant by “Successor khanates” in this lesson?The Mongol era: The empire divided into major successor realms with distinct developments.
What is meant by “Yuan dynasty” in this lesson?The Mongol era: Mongol rulers established the Yuan dynasty in China.
What is meant by “Exchange under empire” in this lesson?The Mongol era: Political connections facilitated some travel without eliminating danger or coercion.
What is meant by “Knowledge transmission” in this lesson?Exchange of ideas and disease: Ideas traveled through translation, teaching, commerce, and migration.
What is meant by “Pathogen movement” in this lesson?Exchange of ideas and disease: Travel and trade can carry disease organisms between populations.
What is meant by “Black Death” in this lesson?Exchange of ideas and disease: Fourteenth-century plague caused massive mortality across affected Eurasian and North African regions.
What is meant by “Demographic effects” in this lesson?Exchange of ideas and disease: Mortality changed labor availability, households, and social relations unevenly.
What is meant by “Scapegoating” in this lesson?Exchange of ideas and disease: Communities sometimes blamed targeted groups rather than understanding disease mechanisms.
What is meant by “Regional variation” in this lesson?Exchange of ideas and disease: Disease effects depended on timing, exposure, and local conditions.