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Africans primarily traded with merchants along trans-Saharan trade routes.?
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Why did Western European countries in the 15th century feel they needed to develop new trade routes?
The Ottoman Empire and Venice controlled existing trade routes to Asia and made European merchants pay taxes.
Is it true that trade routes were profitable paths fallowed by traders that brought Egyptian merchants into contact with more distant land?
Yes, this is true.
What type of routes did Islam first spread along in the Arabian Peninsula?
Islam first spread along TRADE ROUTES since merchants could often bring the religion to places too far away to effectively conquer.
What did the portuguese sailed around cape of good hope and entered the Indian ocean in late fifteenth century?
A network of long distance trade routes dominated by Muslim merchants.
Moctezuma I's armies patrolled the trade routes of the Aztec Empire and kept them safe. What effect did this have on the empire?
It increased Aztec wealth by allowing merchants to freely travel across the empire.
Why was this a problem for the European's merchants?
The geographical obstacles and limited resources in Europe prompted the merchants to search for new trade routes to access valuable goods from Asia. The existing land routes were controlled by middlemen who inflated prices, pushing the European merchants to seek alternative sea routes for direct trade with Asia. This ultimately led to the Age of Exploration and the discovery of new lands.
What animal allowed Arab merchants to travel over harsh land routes?
Camels
What were the two most important routes for immigrants and merchants in the early 1800s?
The two most important rout for immigrants and merchants was theOregon trail and the mine routs
One way in which the silk roads and the west African trade routes are similar is that along both routes?
ideas were exchanged as merchants interacted with each other
How did the wealthy kingdom of Ghana become wealthy from the African gold salt trade?
It imposed taxes on merchants who used gold trade routes that passed through Ghana.
Why did Western European countries in the 15th century feel they needed to develop new trade routes?
The Ottoman Empire and Venice controlled existing trade routes to Asia and made European merchants pay taxes.
How were the Silk Road and West African trade routes similar?
West Africans trade gold & silver apex learninng
What statement about the transatlantic trade routes is true?
Africans traded gold and slaves for European goods.
Which location did merchants historically use monsoon to travel along trade routes?
it's the silk road
What is a good sentence for caravan?
On the trading routes, the merchants rode in caravans to keep themselves safe from bandits.
Explain how the sea routes help European countries break the monoplies on Asian spices held by merchants?
Merchants used specific land routes to bring precious Asian spices. These merchants had the monopoly on Asian-European trade. When sea routes to Asia were discovered, Europeans had another choice of how to obtain their goods from Asia.
The early railroads of the 1820s and 1830s primarily served as?
connect water routes
