| List of Benchmarks for World History | | | | Standard 19. | Understands the maturation of an interregional system of communication, trade, and cultural exchange during a period of Chinese economic power and Islamic expansion | | | | | Topics | 1. Trade and trade routes ; 2. Communication, trade, and cultural exchanges in Eurasia and Africa; 3. Expansion of Islam, 11th-13th centuries; 4. Impact of the environment on society |
| | | | | Level III (Grade 7-8) | | | | | Benchmark 7. | Understands elements of trade in different regions (e.g., the importance of Cairo and other major cities as centers of international trade and culture; how the spread of Islam was connected to trade in Central Asia, East Africa, West Africa, the coasts of India, and Southeast Asia; the importance to individual societies of goods traded between Asia, Africa, and Europe; the consequences placed on maritime trade by the seasonal monsoon winds in the Indian Ocean; features and functions of caravansaries and khans in Central Asian and Middle Eastern cities; which ships were most successfully used for trade in the Indian Ocean and why) | | | | | Vocabulary terms
A. elements of trade (10th to 13th centuries)
| | | Knowledge/skill statements | | | | 1. | Understands the importance of Cairo and other major cities as centers of international trade and culture | | | | 2. | Understands how the spread of Islam was connected to trade in Central Asia, East Africa, West Africa, the coasts of India, and Southeast Asia | | | | 3. | Understands the importance to individual societies of goods traded between Asia, Africa, and Europe | | | | 4. | Understands the consequences placed on maritime trade by the seasonal monsoon winds in the Indian Ocean | | | | 5. | Knows features and functions of caravansaries and khans in Central Asian and Middle Eastern cities | | | | 6. | Knows which ships were most successfully used for trade in the Indian Ocean and why | |
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