TRADE N STUFF LOOK AT DEM MAJOR ROUTES

TRADE N’ STUFF

LOOK AT DEM MAJOR ROUTES! • SILK ROAD • TRANS-SAHARAN • INDIAN OCEAN

I GOT THE HORSES IN THE BACK. . . AND SOME SADDLES & STIRRUPS TOO

THE EXCHANGE OF PEOPLE, TECHNOLOGY, RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL BELIEFS, FOOD CROPS, DOMESTICATED ANIMALS, AND DISEASE PATHOGENS DEVELOPED ACROSS FAR-FLUNG NETWORKS OF COMMUNICATION AND EXCHANGE. • DISEASE. IT KILLED PEOPLE. LOTS OF PEOPLE. ESPECIALLY IN URBAN AREAS. • It devastated trade line like the Roman Roads/Silk Roads. Killing THOUSANDS of soldiers in the Roman Army. Most soldiers died of disease, not the sword.

RELIGION CHANGED TOO • Silk Road spread THE HECK out of Buddhism and Hinduism to the East, mostly East Asia. • Christianity spread WEST of it’s birthplace (unlike the above).

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BASE-ICK-UH-LEE • HI, BILLY MAYS HERE, TRADE ROUTES EMERGED AND ARE REALLY, IMPORTANT. I’M SCREAMING AT YOU ABOUT TRADE ROUTES!!! • RIP BILLY MAYS, 1983 -2009 • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Gb 9 v. Op 7 w. Cq. Q&feature=youtu. be&t=3

SILK ROAD EST. HAN DYNASTY (130 BC-1453 AD) Some of the traders who traveled the Silk Road did not travel the entire route. They went from one city to the next and back home. The goods would be traded all along the route until they reached the far ends In China and Central Asia the traders would often use camels, horses, and even yaks to carry their goods. Marco Polo, the first European to chronicle his experience traveling to China, was one of the most famous historical figures to travel the Silk Road. (1275 CE) The Ottoman Empire refused trade with China in the 15 th century, eventually led to close of Silk Road Route

TRANS-SAHARAN TRADE • The Big Deal • Connected Africa to Europe • Islamic conversion paved the way for the routes • Major empires: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai used the trade routes via camel • Salt, gold, and more salt

BESIDES SEA SALT AND MAYBE FANCY THINGS TRADED • Establishment of Islam as major religion • My Boi Mansa Musa built a Islamic University in Timbuktu. • Across trade routes, Arabic tongue and the Koran flourished. • CAMELS ARE COOL

LOOK AT THAT ALPHABET. ISN’T IT COOL AS BEANS? • IT WAS SPREAD BY SEVERAL FOLKS LIKE MANSA MUSA

INDIAN OCEAN TRADE– HOW CAN YOU TRADE AN OCEAN? MAKES NO SENSE BUT OKAY. • Circa 700 CE- late 1600 s (the Europeans ruined it) • Linked most of East Asia (mostly China) • Mauryan Empire (India), Han Dynasty, Achaemenid (Persians), Roman Empire • A MAJOR REASON OF THE SPREAD OF BUDDHISM, HINDIUSM, & JAINISM. • Trading by ship meant trading in bulk– it also encouraged new style of boats to maneuver through monsoon winds in the East Asian Hemisphere

INDIAN OCEAN– EUROPEANS CAN’T STOP BEING THE WORST • Portuguese mariners (focused on making colonies larger than their country) CE 1498 & the majority of the 16 -17 th centuries intruded on trade. • The Asian cultures had no use for what the Portuguese had to sell or trade, so the Portuguese decided to use this as an opportunity to be PIRATES and plunder ships– specifically the Muslims. • British get involved with their own (British East India Company) and rival the Dutch [East India Company] to challenge for trade routes that were never theirs to be welcomed or established. S. M. H.

WHY ARE WE CELEBRATING THIS GUY IN HISTORY? IDK, BUT HE’S GOT A COOL NAME. • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=rx. Hf_2 z. Tc. Qo