The Indian Ocean Trade VBQ

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Watch the video below, listen actively, and answer the questions that follow. Probably the best way to do this is to read first question, start watching, pause once you encounter the information you need to respond to the question, then read next question before pressing play again.

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Crash Course: Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade

If you want a text transcript of the video to read along, click here: https://nerdfighteria.info/v/a6XtBLDmPA0/

All of the following statements about the Indian Ocean Trade Network are true EXCEPT... [1:45-2:15] *

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It started around 700 CE

It reached its height between 1000 and 1200 CE

It declined during the Mongol period because the Mongols were so violent that they made overland Silk Road trade unsafe

It had a resurgence in the 1300s and 1400s

What region of the Eastern Hemisphere was left out of the Indian Ocean Trade Network? [2:00-2:30] *

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India

Europe

China

Southeast Asia

Middle East

East Africa

What are monsoons? [2:30-3:30] *

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How did monsoons work to make traveling across the Indian Ocean RELIABLE? What impact did this have on trade? (Be very specific because this is a super important point) [3:00-4:00] *

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Despite the diversity, for the most part, especially on the Western half of the Indian Ocean basin, the trade was dominated by ________________ merchants. [3:45-4:30] *

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Swahili

Jewish

Muslim

Chinese

Kota Rani. Would you watch that movie? [5:00-6:00] *

Heck yeah! Go Kota Rani!

Ew no too gruesome.

Meh don't care.

Bro don't even try. It'll turn into a whole thing like Padmavati.

What advantage does seaborne trade have over overland trade? [6:00-6:30] *

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Raw materials like wood, animal skins, ivory, and gold were shipped from... [6:00-7:00] *

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China

India

Africa

Middle East

Pause for a sec to wrap your head around ivory. Ivory was a prized luxury material made from elephant tusks and rhino horns that could be carved into all kinds of cool stuff. However, you have to kill a lot of elephants just to get it, so nowadays the trade in ivory is banned, which of course means... *

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No one trades ivory anymore.

People continue to trade ivory to this day.

Match the region with the commodity or technology it exported [6:45-7:45] *

Spices

Astrolabe

Black Pepper

Lateen Sail

Cotton Cloth

Porcelain

Magnetic Compass

Silk

China

India

Southeast Asia

Sri Lanka

Muslim World

Why was the Lateen Sail so important? (You gots to know this!) [7:15-7:45] *

The country with the largest Muslim population in the world is, surprisingly to many, _____________________, which is largely due to the Monsoon Marketplace. *

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India

Malaysia

Indonesia

Bangladesh

Tanzania

What was one economic motivation for conversion to Islam in Southeast Asia? *

Examine this image of the trade passing through the Bosporus Strait. This is from the Byzantine Empire. You can see the city of Constantinople right there, right at the strait, the tiny narrow passageway of water between the two seas. Pretty cool, innit?