Chapter 7 Networks of Communication and
Chapter 7 Networks of Communication and Exchange:
Focus Questions:
1. The factors that contributed to the growth of trade along the Silk Road is that it was located along the threshold of central Asia. All of the traders share customs with the steppe nomads farther to the East (202). The Chinese were eager to buy western products (203) which were another contributing factor for trade to be in one central area, because merchants would flock to that area. Cooperative relations between caravan traders and pastoral nomads in Central Asia grasslands increased. Parthian rulers from Iran were nomadic in origin and helped trade flourish. The spread of products and cultures along the silk road caused the spread of lifestyles and the bringing of people together. It was considered a social system in which different peoples could come together, communicate, and share their natural wealth with the world. The silk trade continued to grow for these reasons. (page 201)
2. Geography affected Indian Ocean trade routes because they were located near water, which provides them with a greater amount of trade routes to other countries not necessarily being in that particular region. The seasonal monsoon winds helped facilitate sail across the Indian Ocean (202). India was and still is surrounded by it's ocean, so to make use of the water, the Indian Ocean Maritime System was established for coastal trade. Commerce was then able to reach distant lands across the seas. Indians could trade in the South China sea, East India to the Southeastern Asian Islands, and from the West coast of India to the Persian Gulf and East Africa. India could reach resources all over the ancient world that other civilizations claimed unreachable by their own routes. (page 207)
3. Southern traders mainly focused on supplying salt to the sub-Saharan people of Africa, trading was necessary to maintain life. They needed to exchange goods to get what they needed. Each group received their needed products from
Focus Questions:
1. The factors that contributed to the growth of trade along the Silk Road is that it was located along the threshold of central Asia. All of the traders share customs with the steppe nomads farther to the East (202). The Chinese were eager to buy western products (203) which were another contributing factor for trade to be in one central area, because merchants would flock to that area. Cooperative relations between caravan traders and pastoral nomads in Central Asia grasslands increased. Parthian rulers from Iran were nomadic in origin and helped trade flourish. The spread of products and cultures along the silk road caused the spread of lifestyles and the bringing of people together. It was considered a social system in which different peoples could come together, communicate, and share their natural wealth with the world. The silk trade continued to grow for these reasons. (page 201)
2. Geography affected Indian Ocean trade routes because they were located near water, which provides them with a greater amount of trade routes to other countries not necessarily being in that particular region. The seasonal monsoon winds helped facilitate sail across the Indian Ocean (202). India was and still is surrounded by it's ocean, so to make use of the water, the Indian Ocean Maritime System was established for coastal trade. Commerce was then able to reach distant lands across the seas. Indians could trade in the South China sea, East India to the Southeastern Asian Islands, and from the West coast of India to the Persian Gulf and East Africa. India could reach resources all over the ancient world that other civilizations claimed unreachable by their own routes. (page 207)
3. Southern traders mainly focused on supplying salt to the sub-Saharan people of Africa, trading was necessary to maintain life. They needed to exchange goods to get what they needed. Each group received their needed products from