Question

value: 3
this sea and land - based trade route is credited with spreading paper and printing technology as well as the black death.
a. the silk road
b. african gold - salt trade
c. hanseatic routes
d. the mongols

Explanation:

The Silk Road was a combined sea and land trade network that facilitated the spread of technologies like paper and printing between Eurasian regions. It also served as a pathway for the transmission of the Black Death (bubonic plague) across continents in the medieval period. The other options do not match: the African Gold-Salt Trade focused on those commodities in West Africa, Hanseatic Routes were European maritime trade lanes, and the Mongols were the empire that protected parts of the Silk Road, not the trade route itself.

Answer:

a. The Silk Road