Silk Road CCOT
Isaac Adegbenro
WHAP, 2M
Seeliger, W.
1/8/14
C.C.O.T. Essay
Spreading from China to Rome, the Silk Road was established during the Han Dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 220 C.E., due to the stability of this period and the increase in trade it brought. While fulfilling its initial function, throughout the period, 200 B.C.E to 1450 C.E., multiple modifications did transpire. Trade of merchandise stayed constant, trade became more customary, while the focus of materials shifted over time. Geographically the Silk Road was altered overtime as political boundaries shifted and as the societies, in which the routes passed, developed and or changed. Culturally as the trade increased the routes began to carry more than physical goods. Overtime the societies that participated in the Silk Road began to show cultural and religious influences from each other creating a more diverse and connected Eurasia. By 1450 C.E. the Silk Road was a well developed network.
While trade of merchandise was continuous, items traded fluctuated overtime. Items traded were originally locally traded and were not commercially acquired. Luxury items such as spices, which were traded because meat went bad easily, and Silk, that felt good on the skin, became items of high demand as routes expanded from South East Asia through Europe overtime, making the price steep and there for only affordable to the noble and Upper-Class. Commodities like these were worth more than Gold. This commercial trade of merchandise allowed China to capitalize and monopolize the silk trade thus coining the term for these routes as the Silk Road.
Although originally beginning as small transport routes, the Silk Road expanded into an international trade while still keeping its original purpose of trading. The routes took new shapes as Dynasties cycled from Han, 206 B.C.E to 220 C.E., Tang, 620 C.E to 900 C.E., Song, 960 C.E to
WHAP, 2M
Seeliger, W.
1/8/14
C.C.O.T. Essay
Spreading from China to Rome, the Silk Road was established during the Han Dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 220 C.E., due to the stability of this period and the increase in trade it brought. While fulfilling its initial function, throughout the period, 200 B.C.E to 1450 C.E., multiple modifications did transpire. Trade of merchandise stayed constant, trade became more customary, while the focus of materials shifted over time. Geographically the Silk Road was altered overtime as political boundaries shifted and as the societies, in which the routes passed, developed and or changed. Culturally as the trade increased the routes began to carry more than physical goods. Overtime the societies that participated in the Silk Road began to show cultural and religious influences from each other creating a more diverse and connected Eurasia. By 1450 C.E. the Silk Road was a well developed network.
While trade of merchandise was continuous, items traded fluctuated overtime. Items traded were originally locally traded and were not commercially acquired. Luxury items such as spices, which were traded because meat went bad easily, and Silk, that felt good on the skin, became items of high demand as routes expanded from South East Asia through Europe overtime, making the price steep and there for only affordable to the noble and Upper-Class. Commodities like these were worth more than Gold. This commercial trade of merchandise allowed China to capitalize and monopolize the silk trade thus coining the term for these routes as the Silk Road.
Although originally beginning as small transport routes, the Silk Road expanded into an international trade while still keeping its original purpose of trading. The routes took new shapes as Dynasties cycled from Han, 206 B.C.E to 220 C.E., Tang, 620 C.E to 900 C.E., Song, 960 C.E to