Main Trade Routes: The Silk Road
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The Silk Road Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran Reason for Silk Road: 1) Chinese eagerness for western products, especially horses, and 2) the organized Parthian state What was exchanged: crops, religion, ideas, technology Pastoral nomads provided animals, animal handlers, and protection Called the Scythians The Sassanid Empire defeated the Parthians and used Silk Road as avenue for the transfer of religious ideas The Arab Pastoralists supplied camels and guides for the extension of the Silk Road from Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Transformed the transportation economy of the Middle East—camel saddle Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Buddhism spread Religion played an increasing role in defining community identity and political alignments The Indian Ocean Maritime System A network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia In contrast to Mediterranean boats, used: triangular lateen sails, ships were pierced, and tied together, and there normally was no rowing The traders of the Indian Ocean rarely retained political ties with homeland—distances were greater and contacts less frequent than Mediterranean Traded variety of highly valued products A rich cultural diversity came from men having many wives in different ports—bring with them their culture and religion and pass it to their wife. Produced multicultural, bilingual children Trans-Saharan Caravan Routes Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara Saharan Trade relates with the spread of animal domestication—supporting evidence comes from the rock art Trade between the two different trading systems developed slowly Native men in the Sahel played the role of the middlemen The Columbian Exchange The transfer of peoples, animals, plants, and diseases between the New and Old worlds The new world crops revolutionized agriculture and diet in Europe (maize, potatoes, manioc) The disease that spread killed the native populations because of their long isolation and little exposure European livestock had dramatic effect on new world—especially horses The Atlantic Circuit Clockwise network of sea routes that connect Europe, Africa, and the Americas Goal was to make a profit on each leg of the journey The middle passage: transpiration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas 
Europe Textiles, guns, metlas 
Africa Slaves
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