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Bingham
2/10/2014 12:39:02
BPQ 1: What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads?
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Cristina
3/10/2014 05:40:40
is it okay to put our answers on the test as bullet points? it helps me make sure i have answered everything and havent left any points out.
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James O.
3/10/2014 05:45:31
I completely agree. I also think bulleting the answers helps the TA's read our answers, especially if they are longer.
Bingham
3/10/2014 06:22:22
Well, I suppose, if it will help. Just remember, you need to leave this class as academic writers, not justs rememberers of factoids.
Bingham
3/10/2014 06:33:06
See, I'm helping!
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Bethany V
4/10/2014 12:21:58
I find it interesting how what strayer mentioned in Ch. 2 about pastoral people's often being jealous of the wealth and agricultural products of agricultural societies is starting to come into play here. I also find it interesting how the differences between the environments of outer and inner eurasia is what led in part to the development of these different societies, which led to the development of the silk roads.
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Bingham
5/10/2014 04:40:50
Yes, geographic destiny/environmental determinism in action. And the forces of contingency. Those are precisely the connections you need to notice to get a 5 on the exam.
Isabella Jarosz
3/10/2014 08:50:50
I'm taking a shot at BP #3.
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Bethany
5/10/2014 09:32:07
Is BP3 basically just rephrasing the question Strayer lists on pg. 218, In what ways was trade significant?
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Isabella Jarosz
5/10/2014 09:52:57
I think so. That's where I got this answer, anyway
Lauren Bennett
8/10/2014 14:42:49
Regarding the political, would the spread of political ideas be something to add? I know that's a pretty general response, but (for example) Strayer mentions that Srivijaya "made use of imported Indian political ideas", so obviously there was some kind of spread.
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Bingham
9/10/2014 00:04:32
I think that works as a specific example, but not so much as a generalization.
Bingham
3/10/2014 09:47:52
Great answer Isabella. I like the thematic organization. My only tweak would be to put the new foods/crops under environmental. That's demography and an environmental factor.
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James O.
4/10/2014 07:28:19
The introduction to part three is a gold mine... Read it for understanding if you haven't already started the chapter! It is soo helpful!
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Allie
4/10/2014 14:24:50
I made a mind map for the entire chapter. Mr. Bingham told me to try mind mapping and I loved it! I remembered an old mind mapping website I used in middle school. Here's the link for anyone who wants to take a look: https://cacoo.com/diagrams/XpBjA2I7TjVvpomg OR https://cacoo.com/diagrams/XpBjA2I7TjVvpomg-13666.png
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Bethany
5/10/2014 09:38:22
That was really helpful! I just have one question. Are the Bubonic plague and the Black Death not the same thing?
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James O.
6/10/2014 13:52:23
The Bubonic Plague was a specific pestilence, while the Black Death was a group of differing diseases including the bubonic plague, anthrax etc.
Bingham
5/10/2014 01:37:49
I think this is fantastic! Really good work. Had you noticed the one I had started at the top of the forum?
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Bingham
5/10/2014 04:38:49
http://i.imgur.com/dhtRC3W.jpg
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Elizabeth
5/10/2014 05:36:44
This is what I have for MQ 2- “What made silk such a highly desired commodity across Eurasia?”
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Bingham
5/10/2014 08:29:08
Just a couple of tweaks:
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Bethany
5/10/2014 10:20:41
Did China having a monopoly on silk not increase the value of silk since because of this there was not much of it at first? Would this scarcity not make it more desirable to elites because it was more valuable as it was rarer?
Bingham
5/10/2014 11:18:36
No. The question asks about "desire", not value. While some shallow people may confuse "expensive" with desirable, in the rational world, the greater the cost, the lower the desirability.
Bethany
5/10/2014 11:34:07
Ok, thanks for the clarification.
Lauren
8/10/2014 14:50:49
Is it too general just to say it was highly valued, was a symbol of high status, and was associated with Buddhism and Christianity?
Bingham
9/10/2014 00:02:13
Just a tad too general Lauren.
Elizabeth
5/10/2014 07:19:10
This is what I got for MQ 3- “What were the major economic social and cultural consequences of Silk Road commerce?”
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Bingham
5/10/2014 08:34:56
I like it, but be careful. Notice how you went from talking about the impact of trade on things, then suddenly you're talking about how Buddhism changed? Again, I know this seems like picking nits, but all this question required was for you talk about the spread of Buddhism via trade. The topic is long distance trade, not a changing religion.
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Elizabeth
5/10/2014 07:31:04
MQ4- “What accounted for the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Roads?”
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Bingham
5/10/2014 08:41:36
I also think that you need to point out that in China, for centuries it was only a religion of foreign merchants and rulers. Only eventually did it become accepted by the Chinese.
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Bethany
5/10/2014 11:20:57
I don't understand how talking about how Buddhism changed answers the question of how it spread. Can you explain Mr. Bingham?
Bingham
5/10/2014 11:24:00
Bethany, I was referring to the "consequences of Silk road" question, not the "why id Buddhism spread question.
Bingham
5/10/2014 11:26:39
Wait, I see what you're asking. Here's why; part of the reason that it spread, like Christianity, is that it adapted itself to local circumstances/cultures. So the strict Buddha teachings didn't stall it, it morphed and moved on. Get it?
Bethany
5/10/2014 11:31:17
Thanks, I was actually just coming to that conclusion myself. Because the less strict, Mahayana form of Buddhism became dominant, Buddhism was more attractive. And it's adaptability and flexibility in regard to local religions also made it more attractive to people, helping it to spread farther.
Jackson W.
5/10/2014 07:44:04
Maybe I'm being to picky, but epidemics transferred via the silk roads didn't really benefit the Europeans until later in history. The Bubonic plague for example was transferred along the silk road and ended up killing a third of Europe's population. The rest of the answer is really good in my opinion, but you might want to be more specific when talking about those epidemics.
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Elizabeth
5/10/2014 07:59:29
Thanks, I'll add that
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Jackson
5/10/2014 07:44:39
I was referring to MQ#3 by the way
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Allie
5/10/2014 08:47:37
Here is my answer for margin question # 11: In what ways did networks of interaction in the Western Hemisphere differ from those in the Eastern Hemisphere?
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Allie
5/10/2014 09:06:44
Here is my answer for margin question #10: What changes did trans-Saharan trade bring to West Africa?
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Bingham
5/10/2014 09:53:13
Is 8 this one?
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Allie
5/10/2014 09:56:11
Yes, that is the 8th one. And thank you it definitely helps!
Bethany
5/10/2014 14:58:24
I might also add that West African people's gained access to new products such as horses, cloth, dates, various manufactured goods, and salt.
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Bethany
5/10/2014 09:38:42
I am confused on the definition of commerce. Is it like the regulation of trade?
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Bingham
5/10/2014 09:47:00
90% of the time commerce=trade
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Allie
5/10/2014 09:47:28
Commerce is the buying and selling of goods mostly on a large scale
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Allie
5/10/2014 09:50:09
Were the Sand roads relay trade too or were the Silk Roads the only relay trade?
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Bingham
5/10/2014 09:56:08
Well remember, later with the Mongols in control is was less a rely, but that's the 12th century.
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Lauren
8/10/2014 15:02:44
It makes sense that the Sahara wouldn't be as much of a rely trade considering there aren't many places to stop and set up a city in the middle of that desert!
Bethany
5/10/2014 09:57:13
I think it was relay. Or at least it had its roots in relay trade, as this is what went on in the Niger River Valley civilization. Strayer talks about it on pg. 233. Goods moved down the river from urban cluster to urban cluster. At Jenne-Jo goods were moved from boat to donkey or vice versa. So it seems to me that the goods changed hands.
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Bethany
5/10/2014 10:13:43
Oh nevermind I guess I was wrong as what I said contradicts Mr. Bingham. Sorry about that.
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Bingham
5/10/2014 11:21:52
It's okay to contradict me, but in this case, you are referring to what happens to goods once they traverse the Sahara. So that really isn't trans-Saharan trade per se.
Bethany
5/10/2014 11:36:04
Okay, thanks I understand.
Allie
5/10/2014 10:24:43
We almost have all of the big picture questions up here so I'll post my answers for the remaining two. Hopefully that helps!
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Bingham
5/10/2014 11:33:36
Here is how I answered the last one:
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Lauren
8/10/2014 15:19:38
I know it's not mentioned in the chapter, but wouldn't the fact that many different languages are spoken across the realm.. I suppose that's implied in "cultural differences"
Brandon
23/10/2020 12:22:04
you guys are still being helpful all the way in 2020 nearing 2021
Bethany
5/10/2014 12:29:06
Margin question 5- What was the impact of disease along the Silk Roads?
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Bethany
5/10/2014 12:30:28
I chose to organize my answer by region, but I think organizing the answer in terms of SPICE would also be helpful. :)
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Bingham
5/10/2014 12:59:52
Do both! The more ways you work it the more you internalize it!
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Olivia Cardenas
5/10/2014 14:30:04
These are my attempts at margin questions 6 and 7.
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Bridget Kennedy
6/10/2014 12:21:52
For MQ6, I think you could add some similarities betweeen the silk roads and Indian Ocean trading networks, like how they both connected distant peoples all across the Eastern hemisphere and both grew out of the vast environmental and cultural diversity in the region. Also, another difference that could be added is that in the Indian Ocean trade network, trade did not occur between regions and instead was carried out by urban centers spread across a vast area.
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Bingham
6/10/2014 13:13:03
I'll like your first point Bridget. Not so sure about your second. Yes, the Indian Ocean littoral did experience states and cultures that bore more similarities to each other than their own hinterlands. However, we are still talking about extensive inter-regional exchange.
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Hank Bond
8/10/2014 13:46:33
In margin question 5, as disease is discussed, would it be a valid point to state, that this spread / exposure to new diseases and eventually the built up resistance to them was a stepping stone in the process of globalization, in that the people of the world from different regions were not threatened by death by disease and could travel (for the most part) worry free of catching something in a foreign land?
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Augii
8/10/2014 13:55:46
I don't think that would work because while you build up immunities to some of the diseases in your home or village you will never be able to build up immunity to every disease in every part of the world.
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Hank Bond
8/10/2014 14:03:22
Well of course, there were and are too many people for that to happen, but this mixture helped shape, and coordinate how closely people in the eastern world lived yet very differently.
Estelle Cooper
8/10/2014 16:13:21
I know its really late, but a for anyone who is on here, I just found the forum from last year on this chapter, it had some really good information that we haven't discussed yet on here that could help on the test. Just look it up in the search bar at the top of the website
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Augii
9/10/2014 11:50:10
So for the margin question about the social, economic, and cultural impacts of the Silk Road, I know that one of the cultural impacts is the spread of Buddhism by merchants who preferred the universal message to that of Hinduism, but I was wondering if Islam is another religion that spread along the Silk Road?
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Hank Bond
9/10/2014 13:15:45
Yes, Islam was spread through the silk roads, because many merchants that traveled the route were Islam, due to the fact that Mohamed was a merchant, the occupation was highly regarded in Islamic culture. These Islamic merchants had a cultural impact on the places they traveled and sold.
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Bingham
9/10/2014 14:03:54
Islam wasn't present on the silk roads much during this period. Later, beginning in the 12th century, and more during the Mongol period, Islam did spread into central Asia via these roads. This is how the Turks and other central Asian people's came to Islam. But this was centuries after the spread of Buddhism along the routes.
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Seshni and Kimani
9/10/2014 14:42:21
When peasants in southern China stopped cultivating food crops and focused instead on producing luxury goods in demand for Silk Road commerce, was that beneficial or harmful to the peoples ability to obtain nutrients?
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Augi Liebster
9/10/2014 14:44:46
He doesn't talk about that directly, but in the opening vignette he does mention that this reduced the local self sufficiency that peasants had when they were producing food for themselves and the people around them. They were now also dependent on the trade network.
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Bingham
9/10/2014 15:42:09
Think about it. It's both. All changes come with good parts and bad. Money from cash crops can buy food, but if the market dries up, they are vulnerable. We talked about this trade off in class when we discussed the value of trade.
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Kimani and Seshni
9/10/2014 19:29:56
Rad, just wanted to clear up that question we had! Than you Augi and Mr. Bingham!
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