Content Specification - SS.9.4.a.1:
Students will identify the location of the transregional trade networks noting regional connections between the Indian Ocean complex, Mediterranean Sea complex, Silk Roads, and Trans‐Saharan routes.

Content Specification - SS.9.4.b.1:
Students will examine the technologies that facilitated and improved interregional travel along the Indian Ocean and Trans‐Saharan networks of exchange.

Content Specification - SS.9.4.c.1:
Students will identify and explain the importance of at least two key resources and/or products and/or luxury items vital to exchanges along the Indian Ocean complex, Mediterranean Sea complex, Silk Roads, and Trans‐Saharan routes.

Content Specification - SS.9.4.c.2:
Students will identify trade networks involved in the exchange of enslaved people and explore the nature of slavery during this time period.

Content Specification - SS.9.4.c.3:
Students will examine the diffusion of religious ideas along the Indian Ocean complex, Silk Roads, and Trans‐Saharan routes.

Content Specification - SS.9.4.c.4:
Students will examine the travels of Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, and Marco Polo and the influence of their journeys.

Content Specification - SS.9.4.d.1:
Students will examine the emergence and expansion of political states along the Mediterranean Sea complex (Byzantine Empire and rise of Ottoman Empire) and Trans‐ Saharan routes (Ghana and Mali).