consider the significance of trade in human history • To explore the interconnections created by long-distance trade in the period of third-wave civilizations • To examine the full range of what was carried along trade routes (goods‚ culture‚ disease) • To explore the differences between the commerce of the Eastern Hemisphere and that of the Western Hemisphere and the reasons behind those differences Chapter 9: China and the World: East Asian Connections‚ 500–1300 Chapter Objectives • To explore
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Eurasia through Silk Road revitalization and the items that were traded‚ while trade across the Mediterranean Sea remained constant. The revitalization of the Silk Road occurred due to political stability‚ while the trade items changed because people’s needs changed over time. Mediterranean Sea trade remained constant because the trading cities had stable economies as well as complex societies. One change in the trade networks between Africa and Eurasia was that The Silk Road was revitalized
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Final Exam Topic #4 There were many traders ran through Africa and Eurasia during the time frame of 300-1450 C.E. The trades of Mediterranean Sea‚ Trans-Saharan‚ Indian Ocean and Silk Road played a dominant role in trade networks. There were changes but also continuities The need for trade for the Trans-Saharan area began in 800 B.C.E. The importance of this trade were to trade items such as gold‚ slaves‚ ebony‚ coffee beans‚ iron‚ colored dye‚ leather‚ camels‚ wheat and barley. The developments
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Silk Road trade: A preliminary study on why Sogdian merchants dominate Chinese merchants in Tang Dynasty Tang Dynasty was long regarded as the Golden age in the history of China. As the largest empire in the period‚ it enjoys a dominant role in many areas like military and economy. Despite the privilege‚ Tang merchants were not successful in the trading along silk road‚ which was dominated by the sogdian‚ a group of Iranian people living in the Central Asia. Sogdian occupied a key position along
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were almost at full equality with men - men and boys lived in barracks between ages 7 to 30 2. What is the economic system or trade system like? Qin Dynasty - building of roads and bridges‚ and the introduction of standard currency increased trading - high taxes Han Dynasty - used the silk road to trade - main item was silk Maurya Empire - agriculture was the main source of wealth - farmers used excessive irrigation systems Gupta Empire - traded mainly with salt and metals - relied on 1/4
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major arteries for the exchange of goods and ideas over long distances. The trade networks of these regions consistently enabled the spread of religious ideas far beyond their original homelands. Networks like the Trans-Saharan‚ Indian Ocean‚ and Silk Road systems always brought wealth to foreign products that enabled local producers to specialize in items best suited to their regions. Yet‚ the risk of long distance trade decreased over this period as societies expanded and technology increased. Furthermore
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government. Nations which lacked key food resources could sell precious goods like gold‚ textiles or silk. When different societies saw the wealth in these civilizations they were inclined to gain these precious goods and could go to war to have them. Three of the major trade routes that were critical in the post-classical era were the Indian Ocean trade‚ the sea and land trade in Western Europe and the Silk Road. The Indian Ocean route was composed of East Africa‚ the Middle East and South East Asia and
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The Impact of the Silk Road • The Silk Road at first caused many pastoral groups to form. Eventually‚ rich families did settleand build large establishments. • The Silk Road allowed the spread of religions ( see chart above ) such as Nestorian Christianity‚Manichaeism‚ Zoroastrianism‚ and Buddhism. • The stirrup spread though out the Silk Road. It allowed riders to be much more stable and thuscaused military innovation. i.e. the superiority of the Tang calvary in China. The Indian Ocean
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both of them a world power. Also they were both very advanced civilizations; the Romans built machines‚ roads‚ bridges‚ dams and most importantly aqueducts. They also had a writing system. The Han made advancements in metallurgy for making tools. They also built canals‚ bridges and made something called the silk road where people could trade goods and many religions were spread on the Silk Road. They both had a money system like ours with coin type things but mostly traded goods. The Han Dynasty
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600-1450 C.E. 27. Where and when did the Kush and Axum civilizations develop‚ and what were their major industries for trade? The Kush and Axum civilizations developed to the south of Egypt in the upper reaches of the Nile river. Kush developed at about the same time as ancient Egypt‚ and at one point around 750 B.C.E. actually conquered it. Less than a hundred years later‚ however‚ Kush retreated southward back to its capital at Meroe‚ where it became the center of ironworks and trade. After the
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