A.There were more, larger, and better trade networks which means the bigger the network the more supplies and agriculture comes in which can create food surplus which leads to growth in population social classes and a golden age for the empire.
Q.What new technologies, governmental policies, and merchant activities accompanied these developments?
A. Innovations in transportation, state policies, and mercantile practices contributed to the expansion and development of commercial networks which leaded to roads being built and transporting the goods and ideas of technological advances and new ideas come to be and development of society is helped. Gun Powder is a new technology that came to be and empires used it and guns came to be and the worlds first known guns came in China.
Q,What role did pastoral and nomadic groups play in these trade networks?
How did the physical size of post-Classical trade networks compare to the previous era?
Pastoral or nomadic groups played a key role in creating and sustaining these networks post-classical era was much more larger and had much better trade networks and especially much more trade routes then Classical Era. Pastoral and Nomadic groups played a huge role because they kept everything moving spreading culture and technology.
Q. What Classical era trade networks continued during the post-classical era, and which new cities were added during the post-Classical era?
A. Existing trade routes flourished including the Silk Roads, the Mediterranean Sea, trans-Saharan and the Indian Ocean Basin, and promoted the growth of powerful new trading cities such as Novgorod, Timbuktu, Hangzhou, Calicut, Baghdad, and Venice these trade routes carried agriculture technology and culture.
Q.What new technologies enabled the growth of inter-regional trade networks?
A. It was encouraged by a more sophisticated caravan, use of the compass,