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The Spread of Technologies and Disease Along Trade Routes
Synthesize the positive diffusion of papermaking, gunpowder, and crops alongside the devastating transmission of epidemic diseases.
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Transregional Trade Networks of the Afro-Eurasian World
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Investigate how overland and maritime trade routes facilitated economic exchange, technological diffusion, and state formation across Afro-Eurasia.
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Learning standards covered
9.4bNew York Social Studies Standards · 10th GradeNew technologies facilitated and improved interregional travel during this era by allowing people to traverse previously prohibitive physical landscapes and waterways.
9.4cNew York Social Studies Standards · 10th GradeInterregional travelers, traders, missionaries, and nomads carried products and natural resources, and brought with them enslaved people and ideas that led to cultural diffusion.