Chapter 7 APWH
Chapter 7 Commerce and Culture
Different areas and environments such as highlands, steppes, farmlands, islands, mainlands, valleys, mountains, deserts, and forests all generate different products
Some societies were able to form monopolies on a certain good like silk in China
This uneven distribution of goods and resources are what drives trade
In the period of 500 to 1500 long distance trade became more important than ever before in linking and shaping distant societies and people
Trade was mostly indirect in this time period, for example if one merchant gave another rice, and that merchant traded the rice they had been given to another merchant, etc.
Economically commerce effected consumption and shaped daily life
Trade encouraged people to specialize in producing products for sale in long distant markets than goods in their own communities
Trade diminished the economic self sufficiency of local societies, even as it altered the structure of those societies as well
Long distance trade enabled elite groups in society to distinguish themselves from commoners by acquiring goods from a distance
Trade also could transform political life, as the wealth available from controlling and taxing trade motivated the creation of states in various parts of the world and sustained those states once they had been constructed
Commerce raised the question to states whether to allow trade to be a free enterprise system or make it a government directed system
Trade was the vehicle for the spread of religious ideas, technological innovations, disease bearing germs, and plants and animals to places far from their origin
Goods such as golds and salts from Africa and frankincense from Arabia became important goods in the trading world
The Silk Roads
One of the world's most extensive and sustained networks of exchange among the diverse people of Eurasia
Linked pastoral and agricultural people to as well as the large civilizations on the continent's outer rim
Largely a
Different areas and environments such as highlands, steppes, farmlands, islands, mainlands, valleys, mountains, deserts, and forests all generate different products
Some societies were able to form monopolies on a certain good like silk in China
This uneven distribution of goods and resources are what drives trade
In the period of 500 to 1500 long distance trade became more important than ever before in linking and shaping distant societies and people
Trade was mostly indirect in this time period, for example if one merchant gave another rice, and that merchant traded the rice they had been given to another merchant, etc.
Economically commerce effected consumption and shaped daily life
Trade encouraged people to specialize in producing products for sale in long distant markets than goods in their own communities
Trade diminished the economic self sufficiency of local societies, even as it altered the structure of those societies as well
Long distance trade enabled elite groups in society to distinguish themselves from commoners by acquiring goods from a distance
Trade also could transform political life, as the wealth available from controlling and taxing trade motivated the creation of states in various parts of the world and sustained those states once they had been constructed
Commerce raised the question to states whether to allow trade to be a free enterprise system or make it a government directed system
Trade was the vehicle for the spread of religious ideas, technological innovations, disease bearing germs, and plants and animals to places far from their origin
Goods such as golds and salts from Africa and frankincense from Arabia became important goods in the trading world
The Silk Roads
One of the world's most extensive and sustained networks of exchange among the diverse people of Eurasia
Linked pastoral and agricultural people to as well as the large civilizations on the continent's outer rim
Largely a