Chapter 7 - Commerce and Culture

Central Asian steppes

Central Asian steppes

The ________, which were home to numerous nomadic peoples, including the Mongols, were also devastated, undermining Mongol control and permanently shifting the balance of pastoral and agricultural peoples in favor of established farmers.

second century ce

During the ________, two Sogdians living in China were influential in translating Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures into Chinese.

Silk Roads

The ________ have their origins in both geography and history.

foreign administration

Conversion to Buddhism was a consensual process in the oasis cities, with no coercion from invasion or ________.

Long distance trade

________ across the Sahara, like in Southeast Asia and East Africa, provided both incentives and resources for the building of new and larger political systems.

North Africa

The introduction of the camel to ________ and the Sahara in the early years of the Common Era marked a key turning point in African commercial activity.

Persian Empire

The ________ invaded pastoral peoples 'lands in modern- day Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from the south.

Eurasia

________ is frequently separated into inner and outer zones that represent very distinct ecosystems as a geographical unit.

Silk Roads

Buddhism evolved as it expanded across the ________ from India to Central Asia, China, and beyond.

Eurasia

________ gave rise to one of the world's most extensive and persistent networks of interaction among its different peoples, in addition to its numerous unique communities and cultures.

Silk Roads

The ________ had a small volume of trade compared to modern global business, and its focus on luxury products limited its immediate impact on most people.

Elite Chinese women

supplied a portion of the market for these opulent fabrics that symbolized their high rank

Sogdians

a Central Asian group whose merchants created a durable network of trading with China, played a particularly important role in this process

Bubonic plague

decimated the Mediterranean Sea's coastal districts, when the disease-carrying black rats arrived via seaborne trade from India, where they originated