Unit 2: Networks of Exchange Review

​Unit 2 Review

Networks of Exchange​

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements are factually accurate. Which would best support the author’s argument in this passage?

• DNA evidence suggests human populations in western, central, and southern Asia share many similar genes

• Linguistic evidence shows that several small groups in central and southern Africa continue to speak non-Bantu languages

• Archaeological evidence suggests that iron metallurgy spread across sub-Saharan Africa in several distinct waves, separated by hundreds of years.

• Ethnocentric evidence shows that many West African societies share common themes in their cultural and religious traditions.

Multiple Choice

In addition to languages, the people discussed in the passage are credited with the diffusion of which of the following in sub-Saharan Africa?

• Monumental architecture

• New agricultural techniques

• Nomadism

• Writing systems

​Guiding Question: How did people and networks of exchange impact each other?

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following would have been most likely to “set the stage”

for Marco Polo to have been able to travel to the lands that he did?

• The Pax Mongolica

• The voyages of Vasco da Gama

• The conquests of the Umayyad Dynasty

• The development of the printing press

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the difference in the worlds in which Polo and Ibn Battuta traveled?

• Polo traveled to areas that shared his language and religion while

  Ibn Battuta traveled to areas that did not.

• Polo traveled primarily to areas that were less prosperous than

  where he grew up while Ibn Battuta traveled primarily to areas that

  were more prosperous than where he grew up.

• Polo traveled to regions very different from Europe while Ibn

  Battuta traveled mostly within the Islamic world.

• Polo traveled to regions that Europe was closely connected to while

  Ibn Battuta traveled to regions that were not closely connected to

  his home region.

Open Ended

Identify ONE aspect of social structure in Tabriz that demonstrated

continuity with earlier periods in history.

Open Ended

Explain Clavijo’s attitude toward the society and culture at Tabriz.

Open Ended

Explain how caravanserais affected interregional trade in luxury

goods during the period 1200–1450.

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