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Resources are located in Week 4 Lesson 7 folder and Week 5 Lesson 8 folder (Also attached below) 

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Resources are located in Week 4 Lesson 7 folder and Week 5 Lesson 8 folder (Also attached below) 

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Resources are located in Week 6 Lesson 10 folder and Week 7 Lesson 11 folder (Also attached below)

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Resources are located in Week 6 Lesson 10 folder and Week 7 Lesson 11 folder (Also attached below)

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Resources are located in Week 8 Lesson 15 folder (Also attached below)

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Resources are located in Week 8 Lesson 15 folder (Also attached below)

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Ibn Battuta's Travels in Asia and Africa

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Discovery Ed article
China's Reunification and Development: Art and War

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 Xavier R. Trade and Religion in the Song Dynasty

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 Xavier R. Trade and Religion in the Song Dynasty

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Religion and trade had a great yet lasting impact on the Song Dynasty. After a dark period, the people of the Song Dynasty were ready for a time of great prosperity. Using the Silk Road, the Song Dynasty became a huge exporter of the goods that they had exclusively, whilst also becoming a great importer, taking in resources needed to build the Dynasty. Paper money allowed for great economic growth and development in trade. A new rice was created, allowing a much larger population to be fed. Third, gunpowder was forged, allowing for a high military advantage against any enemy force that may appose the Song Dynasty, and was a great advancement. No other empires or dynasties had the power of gunpowder, which also allowed for a certain element of surprise.

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When Ibn Battuta went around he tried to spread his religion when he was trading. For example, in source four it reaches the city of Constantinople. From there he talks about how massive in size it is. As well as saying how it has two beautiful rivers. While there he most likely was about to use trade to help spread the Asian and African Empires.

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Trade effected the expansion and growth of the three major empires in West Africa. The empires grew rich off the gold and salt trade. Under Mansa Musa's rule the Mail empire expanded to its largest boundaries by taking over gold producing areas and salt mines. Musa also expanded trade.

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Trade effected the growth and expansion of the Mali empire. Mansa Musa had control over Salt and gold so many people went to trade with him causing the empire to become rich. Mansa Musa was well known because of his pilgrimage. He brought 300 pounds of gold and the finest of clothes on his journey. He bought a lot of goods on his journey causing other cities to gain wealth.

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Religion and trade influenced the empires in Asia and Africa because Ibn Battuta went around Africa and traded with a lot of cities. Spread his religion to the cities. also he went around grading the cities he went to.

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The song Dynasty was heavily impacted by trade. After a dark period China sprouted into a economic power house. The invention of paper money, the compass and durable boats let merchants trade there new goods. These new goods had never been heard of and were revolutionary some of them were, movable type, gun powder, and silk. China soon devolved into the largest exporter and importer in the world.

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Trade highly influenced Mali. Mansa Musa, a Muslim; went on  his pilgrimage with around 60,000 others. On his pilgrimage he and the others brought an abundance of gold, wearing the finest things they had to Mecca. They flooded the markets, buying many products. They spent so much that they de-valued gold. Since they had spent so much it was no surprise that their names had spread around, and they were heard as far as Europe. If it weren't for gold they would not have been able to spend and get the recognition they did, and trade itself played a large role because other wise what would they have bought, and how would they get the gold to spend? Religion itself helped because they wouldn't go with 60,000 other people on a 'trip' without a reason. But the pilgrimage allowed them to do that.

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Trade played a huge roll in the growth and expansion of the empire of Mali. One example of this is that the empire used the traders and taxed them so that they can use that money to use it for expansion for Mali. another example is that because of controlling the trade of salt and gold, Masa Musa became the wealthiest man on earth ever. He spent so much money in one place that he completely devalued the worth of gold. The final reason trade was important is because controlling the trade of an area means that you have good trading cities in your kingdom and lots of people can go to your cities to trade so you will have more people living in your empire. Trade was a important part of the growth and development of Mali because of these multiple reasons.

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Ibn Battuta spread his religion while he was traveling and trading. He wrote about each place that he went and was almost "judging them". With all of his knowledge he wrote books. He helped people learn about the geography.

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Ibn Battuta explored Africa writing a book about his travels, also he was trying to spread his religion. He did talk about how nice some of the towns were and how bad some are. Mostly there trading centers, he said most of the trading center were pretty nice.

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Religion and trade greatly influenced the Song Dynasty. Paper money was one of the inventions that helped develop trade. The Song Dynasty also made a compass that helped them find their way during travel.

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Trade played a large role in the expansion of the Mali empire. For example, they were able to trade gold for salt which they needed and without it would be hard to grow. Also, gold was needed around the world for trade. This meant that people could get things not available locally. In conclusion trade was important to the growth of the Mali empire.

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The Song Dynasty through trade grew very rich, and through this they were able to get many scholars. These scholars made amazing things like better ships and gunpowder that could be used for weaponry or for fireworks. Since they were trading so much they revived the silk road, which brought them even more profit. They did not focus on military, but made many advances in it through trade. The song dynasty, through trade, became rich and focused on education, and then they had many scholars, and these scholars made things that we still use today, like fireworks.

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Trade had a great impact of the growth and expansion . An example is the development of paper money from constant trade. Using paper money they grow faster economically. The silk road also helped the trade for stuff they needed. This is why Trade had a great impact of the growth and expansion of The Song Dynasty.

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trade played a huge role in the Mali empire. one of the reasons why trade was so good because they had lots of resources to trade for that was needed for them. also it was easier for them since they had camels to help the carry there gold. also, he controlled salt deposits so he could get large amounts of salt to trade for gold or other wanted goods. they were able to get astonishing amounts of gold because of all the salt they were giving which is very important for people who don't have it. that is why trade is important for the Mali empire.

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Trade affected the development and expansion of the song dynasty. There were lots of trade routes through the dynasty because of the silk road. This meant there was lots of area to trade with more western country's. The dynasty also had many achievements such as paper money meaning the money was easy to travel with. The Chinese also had very good and efficient ships meaning the could trade by water. Another development that helped them was that of gunpowder. It was in such high demand from other military's. This meant they could both gain money from it and and decent military power.

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I think that Ibn Battuta talked a lot about how trade influenced these towns. One example is where he talks about the salt mines and how there were only slaves there and they were mining for salt which was valuable for trade.

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Religion and trade influenced the development and expansion of empires because of many reasons. For example, Ibn Battuta describes how the economy at Taghaza relies on camels and salt trading. A reason that religion is important to the development of empires is because Muslim scholars had great achievements in math and science and can be credited with inventing algebra. Overall trade and religion are very important to the growth of empires.

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Mansa Musa was in control of many years for the salt and gold trade. These resources were important for many things in Asia and Africa. Having power over these really helped to get there religon spread, it helped to also spread there land. They use of salt and gold was very important it was used for many things such as making coin and keeping meat fresh for longer. The develpoment was helped when people would come and share there religon.

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Masa Musa controlled the salt and gold trade which is would made him become one of the richest people ever. He started giving so much gold that it wasn't very valuable anymore. Salt and gold were very useful in Africa because it was so hot and they sweat so much that they needed to replenish the salt in their body. It could also be used to keep food fresh for longer. Gold was used to make coins, coins were used to trade for resources. Since, no area had every resource they needed to trade for them.

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Trade played a huge role in the development and expansion of West Africa. Spefically in the Ghana empire for example through the trade of salt and gold, Ghana's king taxed the merchants on their goods as they enter and left the kingdom. As the money went towards the king, he supplied that money towards his army and in return his army conquered other terriotries and land. Which benefitted their kingdom a lot.

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Religion and trade made an influence in the expancion of  empires in asia and africa one example is Ibn Battuta. Ibn Battuta traveled around and wrote books about his travel.He wrote about each place he traveled to. He spreaded religion while traveling and trading. He wrote about the trading and many details of each place he traveled to.

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Religion and trade influenced the development and expansions of Empires in Asia and Africa by their economy and how Ibn Battuta displayed all of their Empires. In source 2 he described San'a as being the wealthiest town in Yemen. Having Gardens, tropical fruits, and streams. This could've made people want to visit San'a, which would help with their trade and help them spread their religion.

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Religion and trade influenced the growth of the Mali Empire. Gold-salt trade was very important. People in Mali traded gold for salt. Gold was abundant in West Africa, while salt was hard to find. Salt was very important, as natural salts were lost due to respiration. Mansa Musa and his friends went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the most holy city of Islam. On the way, they stop at Egypt. He and his friends flooded the market with gold. Therefore, people came to know of Mansa Musa's and Mali's wealth. Mansa Musa and the Mali Empire valued the arts, education, and religion. Mansa Musa hired an architect to design a school that taught law, history, and learning. Religion and trade had a significant influence on the Mali Empire.