Here are the answers to your questions:
Question 1: How did the Abbasid dynasty benefit from its central location?
- Answer: The central location allowed them to control trade routes.
Question 2: Based on your knowledge of cultural diffusion, what else travels along trade routes?
- Answer: All of the following:
- language
- religion
- new technology
- knowledge
Question 3: History teachers constantly talk about how important trade routes are because________.
- Answer: trade routes connect civilizations together.
Question 4: The Abbasid Dynasty was connected to West Africa through trade routes.
- Answer: True.