Ch. 9 Test: Silk Roads and Indian Ocean Trade

General Zhang Jian is credited with travelling across the deserts and mountains of Central Asia on behalf of Emperor Wu of which empire?

• Babylonian

• Mauryan

• Chin

• Han

• Persian

Critical to the functioning of the Silk Road were

• imperial guards from various kingdoms along the way for protection of merchants.

• pastoralists who provided animals, handlers, and protection along the road.

• water merchants in the central Asian desert.

• Steppe agriculturalists who sold food products to travelers.

• Ferengi merchants who initiated standardized currency rates.

Nomadic peoples were dependent on…

• trans-Saharan trade between southern India and eastern Madagascar.

• self-sufficiency.

• agricultural settlements in east Asia.

• the trade contacts with traveling armies and missionaries across Asia

Evidence of what revolutionary technology first comes from the Kushan people of northern Afghanistan?

• chariot

• chain mail

• stirrup

• hardtack

• gunpowder

Scythians were fearsome horse archers, and they were noted to live in what form of dwelling?

• log cabins

• mud-brick fortresses

• portable felt huts

• tree houses

• subterranean caverns

The Indian Ocean Maritime System took place in which of the following regions?

• the South China Sea

• from the east coast of India to the islands of Southeast Asia

• from the west coast of India to the Persian Gulf and the east coast of Africa

• All of these are correct.

• None of these are correct.

Navigational improvements such as ______ assisted Indian Ocean mariners in venturing along trade routes.

• the abacus

• the architrave

• the astrolabe

• ocean floor topographic maps

• the yurt

Ships in the Indian Ocean Maritime System were better prepared for long-distance travel than the Greeks because

• they could take advantage of monsoon winds to drive their ships using triangular lateen sails.

• the Greeks were not interested in long-distance trade.

• the Greeks had to cover a larger amount of territory for colonies to support their homeland.

• the Asian ships weren't nailed together and sank less often.

• Greek ships used square sails, which weighed more.

Examples of luxury goods procured from ports in India and Somalia included…

• India = ivory, Somalia = mangos

• Somalia = leather products, India = rubber sap

• India = ivory, Somalia = frankincense

• Somalia = yurts, India = lateen sails

Diversification of available foods because of trade included bananas and yams between…

• Indonesia and Madagascar

• southern India and western Arabia

• Mogadishu and Malacca

• Samarkand and Delhi