WHAP Unit 2 Networks of Exchange 2022

Bills of Exchange - a written order to a person requiring the person to make a specified payment to the signatory or to a named payee Black Death - The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century Calicut - trading city on coast of India Caravanserai - inn or rest station for caravans diasporic merchant communities - Communities of traders from a common culture living together outside their native homeland. They formed in ports, cities, and other important locations along major trade routes. Examples are communities of Jews living in Muslim Cairo, or an enclave of Muslim merchants living in Calicut on the coast of South Asia Diffusion of crops - Bananas in Africa, New rice varieties in East Asia, Spread of Cotton, sugar, and citrus throughout Dar-al-Islam and the Mediterranean basin