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Classical and Post-Classical Trade. Which trade routes are visible on this map?. Mediterranean Sea Lanes. Silk Roads. Indian Ocean Sea Lanes. Indian Ocean Trade. Importance of the Monsoon Season. Winter winds aided trade/travel. Effect on Agriculture-rice and millet. Inspired Literature.
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Which trade routes are visible on this map? Mediterranean Sea Lanes Silk Roads Indian Ocean Sea Lanes
Indian Ocean Trade Importance of the Monsoon Season • Winter winds aided trade/travel • Effect on Agriculture-rice and millet • Inspired Literature
Paper, Silk Porcelain Textiles Carpets Cotton Salt Silver China Zone Ivory Gold Slaves Spices Arab Zone Spices Indian Zone
Trans-SaharanOrigins: Role of the Bantu Migrations Brought agriculture from the Upper Nile using Sahara Desert Developed the Nok Culture in W. Africa **Introduced iron working Migrated to all parts of Africa
Trans-Saharan Characteristics • Multiple Routes • Gold and Salt • Role of the Berbers • Increased importance of Timbuktu • Later Introduced Islam to W. Africa
American Trade Role of the Pochteca: • Aztec merchants of varying degrees of status • Long distance traders (i.e. middlemen) • Spied on enemies. Trusted ones could declare war
Conditions that enabled Long Distance Trade • Innovations • Domesticated Pack Animals • Maritime Technology • Yokes, Saddles, Stirrups • Horses, Oxen, Llamas, Camels • Lateen Sail • Dhow ships
Impact of Trade • New Food sources • Spread rice and cotton to Middle East • Introduction of Qanat System
Impact of Trade • Disease • Religion • Roman and Chinese urban populations lowered • Smallpox, measles, Bubonic Plague • Contributed to decline • Buddhism, Christianity and later Islam • Success depended on blending with cultures they encountered