History Notes (Islam)
- Trade route- under the Abbasids, they created a trading route
- They helped to spread religion, Islamic culture, and technology
- The routes went across north Africa and the middle east, into Spain , west Africa, and eventually India and china
- India and china silk roads.
- Specific countries/ areas
- China-India-byzantine-Arabia-northwest Africa-Egypt-black sea-southwest Persia
- Banking system- it was pretty complex with checks that could be cashed in another country
- For their country they often used fine fabrics made of cotton, wool, linen, silk
- SAKK- a sakk is a form of check that traders in the Middle East used to pay for their items.
- Could be cashed in another country
- What they traded??
- Silk, gold, silver, ink, leopard skin, tan hides, red pepper, sugar, dates
- Mongol Invasion- invasion of Asia through the 13 century—conquered areas that include china, Russia, and the middle east, and eastern Europe.
- Cities that resisted were subject to destruction
- The Mongols conquered west Asia either by force or voluntary submission
- Over 3 years they destroyed all of the major cities in Eastern Europe except Novgorod and Pskov.
- Military units- transfers between units were forbidden and leaders at each level had the license to execute orders that they considered best.
- Promotions were granted by ability not birth order. Military focus on archery, and rotations, and formations
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