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Silk, Sea, and Sand Roads

Silk, Sea, and Sand Roads. AP World Mr. Colden Fall 2013. Chapter Intro. Why was trade significant? altered consumption encouraged specialization diminished economic self-sufficiency of local societies traders often became a distinct social group sometimes was a means of social mobility

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Silk, Sea, and Sand Roads

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  1. Silk, Sea, and Sand Roads AP World Mr. Colden Fall 2013

  2. Chapter Intro • Why was trade significant? • altered consumption • encouraged specialization • diminished economic self-sufficiency of local societies • traders often became a distinct social group • sometimes was a means of social mobility • provided prestige goods for elites • sometimes the wealth from trade motivated state creation • religious ideas, technological innovations, plants and animals, and  disease also spread along trade routes

  3. Silk Roads

  4. The Growth of the Silk Roads • Eurasia is often divided into inner and outer zones with different ecologies • Creation of classical civilizations and imperial states in 500–0 b.c.e. included efforts to control pastoral peoples • Trading networks did best when large states provided security for trade

  5. Goods in Transit • A vast array of goods traveled along the Silk Roads, often by camel • Silk symbolized the Eurasian exchange system • Volume of trade was small, but of economic and social importance

  6. Cultures in Transit • Cultural transmission was more important than exchange of goods • The case of Buddhism • Spread much more slowly among Central Asian pastoralists • In China, was the religion of foreign merchants or rulers for centuries • Buddhism was transformed during its spread

  7. Sea Roads

  8. Sea Roads: Exchange across the Indian Ocean

  9. The Indian Ocean Network • Transportation was cheaper by sea than by land • Made transportation of bulk goods possible • Monsoons

  10. Sea Roads

  11. Weaving the Web of an Indian Ocean World • Two great encouragers for the Indian Ocean exchange: • Economic and political revival of China • Rise of Islam in seventh century C.E.

  12. Sea Roads

  13. Southeast Asia and Srivijaya • Srivijaya = (sree – vih – JUH – yah) • Southeast Asia: location between China and India made it important • Malay kingdom of Srivijaya • dominated trade from 670 to 1025 C.E. • Sailendras kingdom (central Java) was also influenced by India

  14. East Africa

  15. East Africa and Swahili Civilization • Origins • Swahili civilization flourished along East African coast between 1000 and 1500 C.E. • Deep participation in the Indian Ocean world

  16. Sand Roads: Exchange across the Sahara

  17. Commercial Beginnings in West Africa • Trans-African trade was also based on environmental variation • Earliest trade in the region was among agricultural peoples in the Sudan

  18. Gold, Salt, and Slaves: Trade and Empire in West Africa • Regular trans-Saharan commerce by 300–400 C.E. • Sahara became a major international trade route • Trade encouraged new and larger political structures • Slavery was present in West Africa

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