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.