CHAPTER 7:
COMMERCE AND CULTURE
Silk Roads
- One of the world's most extensive and sustained networks of exchange
- China, Siberia, India, Middle East, Mediterranean
- was not a real road!
- array of goods travelled along the Silk Roads
- goods for elite
- silk
- porcelain
- furs
- spices and other foods (nuts, etc.)
- transport cost to much, price did not allow movement of staple goods
- Benefitted elite
- Disease travelled road as well
- Athens- great epidemic
- Roman and Han empire- smallpox and measles
- Mediterranean- bubonic plague
- China, Europe, and Central Asia- Black Death
- took out 1/2 of European population
Sea Roads
- Was world's most important network until 1500
- China, East Africa, Arabia, India, Mediterranean, Southeast Asia
- China dominated
- was not a real road!
- transportation of bulk goods
- textiles
- pepper
- timber
- rice
- sugar
- wheat
- it was easier to transport bulk good because the sea was cheaper than land travel
Sand Roads
- earliest trade region among agricultural people of Sudan
- West Africa was main location
- goods
- salt
- gold
- slaves
- manufactured goods
- Merchants participated in this road
- travelled at night to avoid heat
- trade encourage new and larger political structures
I wouldn't want to live in any of these regions. As a woman they all seem terrible. I don't even like how women are treated in today's society so I know all too well I wouldn't be able to stand being a woman back then. If I was a man, I think I would choose the Sea Roads because its the cheapest and who doesn't enjoy an ocean view.
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