Trade Routes circa 1500 CE Big Idea Trade
Trade Routes circa 1500 CE
Big Idea • Trade routes were a major way of spreading technologies, products, and ideas around the world, especially in the Eastern Hemisphere. This spread is known as cultural diffusion.
The Silk Roads
Location: Silk road stretches from China through Middle East up to Europe
Products Traded Paper Porcelain Spices Textiles (silks)
Ideas/Technologies Spread • Ideas: Buddhism from China to Korea and Japan • Technologies: printing, paper money, compass all spread to Western Europe
Maritime Indian Ocean
Location: stretches across the Indian Ocean
Products Traded Spices Textiles Gems
Ideas/Technologies Spread • Ideas: Hinduism and Buddhism into Southeast Asia • Technologies: Lateen sail, new crops like sugar making
Trans. Saharan
Location: across Northern Africa
Products Traded Gold Salt
Ideas/Technologies Spread • Ideas: Islam spread to North Africa through camel caravans
North Europe (Black Sea)
Location: links Northern Europe to the Black Sea (Constantinople)
Products Traded Amber Gems Textiles
Ideas/Technologies Spread • Technologies: waterwheels and windmills came out of the Middle East and into Europe
Western Europe
Location: along seas and rivers in Western Europe
Products Traded Textiles
Ideas/Technologies Spread • Technologies: waterwheels and windmills came out of the Middle East and into Europe
South China Sea
Location: South and East China Seas
Products Traded Spices Textiles (silks)
Ideas/Technologies Spread • Ideas: Buddhism from China to Korea and Japan
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