200 BCE Beginning Of Silk Road
300-400 CE Beginning of the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
350 CE Ocean trade routes develop between India & China
6th Century End of China’s monopoly on silk
7th Century Rise of Islam
1250 CE Great Zimbabwe established in E. Africa
1354 CE Ibn Battuta’s travels take him to West Africa
14th Century Black Plague arrives in Europe
1.WHAT WERE THE MAJOR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF SILK ROAD COMMERCE?
Major economic consequences of the silk road commerce include that some peasants in the Yangzi River delta of southern China sometimes gave up the cultivation of food crops, choosing to focus instead on producing silk, paper, porcelain, lacquerware, or iron tools, much of which was destined for the markets of the Silk Roads. Merchants also accumulated considerable fortunes!
2.WHAT WERE THE MAJOR SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF SILK ROAD COMMERCE?
Major social consequences of the silk road commerce include that, Buddhism spread because of merchants along the silk road. Merchants also felt like they could earn religious merit by building monasteries Buddhism even changed, it started to become involved with secular affairs. The Western side also shows Greek influence.
300-400 CE Beginning of the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
350 CE Ocean trade routes develop between India & China
6th Century End of China’s monopoly on silk
7th Century Rise of Islam
1250 CE Great Zimbabwe established in E. Africa
1354 CE Ibn Battuta’s travels take him to West Africa
14th Century Black Plague arrives in Europe
- Indian Ocean Trade Route – The Indian Ocean Trade began with small trading settlements around 800 A.D., and declined in the 1500's when Portugal invaded and tried to run the trade for its own profit. As trade intensified between Africa and Asia, prosperous city-states flourished along the eastern coast of Africa.
- The Silk Road - An ancient network of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Timbuktu - A city in the West African nation of Mali situated 20 km north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert; terminus of a trans-Saharan caravan route; Famous for it's gold trade.
- Angkor Wat - A temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world. It was originally founded as a Hindu temple for the Khmer Empire, gradually transforming into a Buddhist temple toward the end of the 12th century.
- Trans-Saharan Slave Trade - Trans -Saharan trade with west African trade system. It included crossing the Sahara Desert, thus calling it Saharan.Gold, salt, cowrie shells, silk and much more was traded. Muslims started it because they were the founders of the trade routes. It was the first slave trade condoned by Muslims and was as brutal as it's Atlantic counterpart It was organized by the villagers in the city that the traders where trading in. (Anyone want to cross-check me in the comments? feel free!)
- Thorfinn Karlsfenni - [HE'S A VIKING!] Thorfinn was a Norse merchant who followed Leif Ericsson’s route seven years later.…around 1010 AD…to North America. Archeology supports the long-held theory that it was Thorfinn who began the tradition of telling the Viking sagas that were passed down from generation to generation. The son of Thorfinn and his wife is thought to be the first European baby born in North America. He later settled in Iceland. More Here
- Srivijaya - A dominant thalassocratic city-state based on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which influenced much of Southeast Asia. Srivijaya was an important center for the expansion of Buddhism from the 8th to the 12th century.
- The Black Death - One of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53. (A bubonic plague)
- Mali -A huge territorial empire that flourished in west Africa during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Its capital was Timbuktu, which became a center of Islamic learning. The empire controlled trade routes that stretched from the edge of the Sahara in the north to forests in the south and that carried gold and other luxuries.
1.WHAT WERE THE MAJOR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF SILK ROAD COMMERCE?
Major economic consequences of the silk road commerce include that some peasants in the Yangzi River delta of southern China sometimes gave up the cultivation of food crops, choosing to focus instead on producing silk, paper, porcelain, lacquerware, or iron tools, much of which was destined for the markets of the Silk Roads. Merchants also accumulated considerable fortunes!
2.WHAT WERE THE MAJOR SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF SILK ROAD COMMERCE?
Major social consequences of the silk road commerce include that, Buddhism spread because of merchants along the silk road. Merchants also felt like they could earn religious merit by building monasteries Buddhism even changed, it started to become involved with secular affairs. The Western side also shows Greek influence.
I. Silk Roads: Exchange across Eurasia
A. The Growth of the Silk Roads
1. Inner and Outer Eurasia
2. Pastoral people in motion
3. Indirect connections between empires
B. Goods in transit
1. Luxury goods such as silk
2. Women as producers and consumers
3. China and other centers of silk production
C. Cultures in Transit
1. Buddhism on the road
2. New forms of Buddhism: Mahayana
D. Disease in Transit
1. Smallpox and measles in Han and Rome
2. Bubonic plague in Byzantium and elsewhere
3. Mongols and the Black Death
II. Sea Roads: Exchange across the Indian Ocean
A. Weaving the Web of an Indian Ocean World
1. Malay sailors in East Africa
2. New technologies
3. India as the fulcrum
4. Impact of China
5. Islam and trade
B. Sea Roads as a Catalyst for Change: Southeast Asia
1. Srivijaya, 670–1075
2. Khmer kingdom of Angkor, 800–1300
3. Borobudur and Angkor Wat
4. “Indianization”
C. Sea Roads as a Catalyst for Change: East Africa
1. Swahili
2. Rise of Islamic trade
3. Lamu, Mombasa, Kilwa, and Sofala
4. Cultural fusions
5. Muslim Africans
6. Great Zimbabwe
III. Sand Roads: Exchange across the Sahara
A. Commercial Beginnings in West Africa
1. Environmental variation around the Sahara
2. Sudanic West African trade and urban centers
B. Gold, Salt, and Slaves: Trade and Empire in West Africa
1. Camel caravans carrying gold and salt
2. Wealthy empires based on trade
3. Women in the workforce
4. Slave trading
5. Cosmopolitan cities
IV. An American Network: Commerce and Connection in the Western Hemisphere
A. Geographic barriers
B. Regional trade networks
C. Mayan and Aztec trade
D. Incan roads
V. Reflections: Economic Globalization— Ancient and Modern
A. Luxury goods of the ancient world
B. Mass consumption in the modern world
C. Multi-polar ancient economy
D. Western dominance in the modern economy
A. The Growth of the Silk Roads
1. Inner and Outer Eurasia
2. Pastoral people in motion
3. Indirect connections between empires
B. Goods in transit
1. Luxury goods such as silk
2. Women as producers and consumers
3. China and other centers of silk production
C. Cultures in Transit
1. Buddhism on the road
2. New forms of Buddhism: Mahayana
D. Disease in Transit
1. Smallpox and measles in Han and Rome
2. Bubonic plague in Byzantium and elsewhere
3. Mongols and the Black Death
II. Sea Roads: Exchange across the Indian Ocean
A. Weaving the Web of an Indian Ocean World
1. Malay sailors in East Africa
2. New technologies
3. India as the fulcrum
4. Impact of China
5. Islam and trade
B. Sea Roads as a Catalyst for Change: Southeast Asia
1. Srivijaya, 670–1075
2. Khmer kingdom of Angkor, 800–1300
3. Borobudur and Angkor Wat
4. “Indianization”
C. Sea Roads as a Catalyst for Change: East Africa
1. Swahili
2. Rise of Islamic trade
3. Lamu, Mombasa, Kilwa, and Sofala
4. Cultural fusions
5. Muslim Africans
6. Great Zimbabwe
III. Sand Roads: Exchange across the Sahara
A. Commercial Beginnings in West Africa
1. Environmental variation around the Sahara
2. Sudanic West African trade and urban centers
B. Gold, Salt, and Slaves: Trade and Empire in West Africa
1. Camel caravans carrying gold and salt
2. Wealthy empires based on trade
3. Women in the workforce
4. Slave trading
5. Cosmopolitan cities
IV. An American Network: Commerce and Connection in the Western Hemisphere
A. Geographic barriers
B. Regional trade networks
C. Mayan and Aztec trade
D. Incan roads
V. Reflections: Economic Globalization— Ancient and Modern
A. Luxury goods of the ancient world
B. Mass consumption in the modern world
C. Multi-polar ancient economy
D. Western dominance in the modern economy