Goods to be traded along the routes: 

• Luxury goods such as silk, porcelain, sugar, ivory.

• Technologies such as camel saddles, the compass, gunpowder

• Diseases such as the bubonic plague or the “Black Plague”

• There was also a spread of pack animals like camels, religion, different cultural foods, and monetary systems like the paper bill.

• The new trade routes were a way for different Empires and nations to get in contact with each other and learn about new and different cultures and lifestyles.

 

Agricultural Advancements:

• Chinampa field systems: developed by the Aztecs, it was built into the ground and were so that there was a more effective way to use resources.

• Horse Collar: the development of the horse collar helped increase the rate at which there could be production of goods because horses worked faster and especially with direction from a collar

• Three Field Rotation: by adding another crop the soil quality improved and made the food grown better and with the improved food quality there was an increased population

• Swamp Draining: by draining the swamp there was an improvement in the quality of the food being produced and improved life quality overall.

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Technological and Cultural Transfers:

In the Mongol Empire the transfer of technological advancements all happened along the Silk Road and encompassed most of Eurasia. There was an exchange of mathematics, astronomy, geography, cartography, block printing, and gunpowder. 

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Just like with the Mongol Empire, Islam influenced Western culture with mathematics, astronomy, and medicine.