AP World
Have out your Write Now paper and Indian
Ocean Trade Basin Map.
Write Now: Day 32
WN #7.2
Respond to the following in complete sentences in
the space for class meeting two on your paper.
Describe the continuities and changes in the
commerce in the Indian Ocean region from
600 CE to 1450 CE.
Essential Question
How did improved technologies and trade
practices increase trade and what cross cultural
exchanges occurred from 600 to 1450 CE?
Topical Questions:
What were the major trading cities of the silk roads?
Who traveled along the silk roads?
What cross-cultural exchanges occurred because of
trade?
Primary Source Document/POV Work
Silk Road Trade
Silk Road Travelers
Directions: Visit Each of the ten
stations and complete the chart.
For each station read about the city
and illustrate the most prominent
landmark that travelers would have
seen
Mark the city on your map
Write a POV statement for the primary
document
Xi’an
 one of the biggest cities in
the world
 a center of international
trade.
 Silk Road started here
Gobi Desert
Taklimakan Desert
Dunhang
The thousand-handed
and thousand-eyed
Avalokiteshvara.
Ancient Buddhist
paintings from the cave
temples of Tun-huang
on the western frontier
of China (London,
1921)
Samarkand
 Fruit markets
 Oasis of Ismail (a Muslim ruler) = garden city
Valley of Bamiyan
 Had the largest Buddha’s in the world
 Shows spread of Buddhism from India to China
Baghdad
•
Means “east
gate”
•
Was the
largest city in
the world in
the year 900
•
Was a
center of
learning for
the Muslim
world
Damascus
 Caravanserais
 One of the starting
points of the silk road
Byzantium/
Constantinople/
Istanbul
 End/beginning = starting point for the European market = very
wealthy
Homework
Finish Trade Map
Finish silk road primary source
readings.
Exit Ticket
What role did cities play in the
development of trade and cultural
inter actions along the silk roads?
Support your answer with specific
examples.