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.