Islam Notes
Islamic Trade
- Routes
- 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,
- Specific Countries
- India, China, Byzatine, Arabia, Northwest Africa, Egypt, Black Sea, and Southwest Persoa
- Banking System
- it was very complex with checks that could be cashed in another country
- for their currency, they often used fine fabrics made of cotton, wool, linen, and silk
- BOLDED TERM
- Sakk- form of a check that traders in the Middles East used to pay for their items
- could be cashed in another country
- created in the 9th century
- major currency
- made to transfer money more securely
- What they traded
- Silk, silver, gold, slaves, ink
- marble, leopards, doneys, sugar, dates
- molasses, red copper, paper, coco nuts
- elephants, tanned hides, armor, cinnamon, and paper
Mongol Invasion
- When?
- invaded Asia through the 13th century
- conquered areas that include China, Russia, the Middle East,
- What happened?
- cities that resisted were subject to desturction
- the mongols conquered West Asia either by force or voluntary submission
- over the course of 3 years they destroyed all of the major cities in Eastern Europe
- conquered all of China during the invasion of China
- Military Units
- under Genhis Khan, the mongol soldiers were organized into groups based on the decimal system
- transfers between units were forbidden and leaders at each level had the license to execute that they considered best
- promotions were granted by ability, not birth order
- each soldier maintained 3 or 4 horses
- focused on horsemanship, archary, and unit tactics, formations and rotations
- usually used smaller horses because they lasted longer
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