In Richard Hakluyt article, A Discourse to Promote Colonization (1584). Hakluyt uses trade, navy & religion as important selling points for creating colonies. The arguments for creating colonies does still exist 400 years later. Richard Hakluyt illustrates how important trade was during 1584 by emphasizing the increase of trading wool for example, #5 states, “It comes to pass that by the greater endeavor of the increase of trade of wool in Spain and in the West Indies now daily more and more and more multiplying.” The trade of wool was becoming more important.…
The Silk Road was one of the most revolutionary innovations in all of Chinese history. The Silk Road stretched all the way from China to the Middle East (doc 4). China was known for holding the secret of silk making and China used the Silk Road to trade silk across the Middle East to Europe, this gave China great wealth (Doc 4). It also brought cultural diffusion to China eventually bringing Buddhism to China (IO). The Great Wall of China was also expanded to protect those who followed the Silk Road.…
The Roman Empire was one of the greatest civilizations in history, developing advancements in many important areas, like architecture and technology. Its culture was widespread, and it had a big impact on other civilizations to come. The main way Rome was able to become so advanced was being able to adapt to its geography. This allowed them to complete tasks more efficiently, and maximize the effectiveness of what they were doing.…
From the beginning of the American colonies we have known that the way the land was shaped we have grown around it and used different resources. From the time Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the Americas, we have always used the land. The Native Americans used the land for years before the English, French, Spaniards and Africans came. From the time we took to come over to the Americas, even by accident, we used the land. To get to the Americas we used water routes, the berringstreight, and land bridge.…
The Roman/Byzantine Empire implemented questionable economic policies to enter new markets and continue the monopolies they had. According to Procopius, one of Justinian’s main advisors, the Roman Empire smuggled in Silk Worms from China to be able to enter the Silk market to be able to lower the price for themselves. The Empire also enforced dress codes of who could dress in Silk and what color they could wear. They did this to separate the classes from one another. Justinian’s may have been a conqueror and war hero, but his economic philosophy is questionable.…
The main points and influences of sugar involved its association with the Atlantic Ocean and its involvement with the creation of the Atlantic plantation system. This commodity was influential in the movement of slaves and servants from Africa and Europe to the Americas to produce sugar. The main points and influences of silk mostly involved the areas of West Africa, East Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Silk was a status symbol and is tied to the Silk Road, a network of caravan routes from China to the Mediterranean Sea where silk was a major commodity of the trade…
The Mongols created the largest empire in all of history. The land they had conquered is more than two times that of the next greatest conqueror, Alexander the Great. But unlike Alexander, who is often remembered as a hero, the legacy of the Mongols is one of brutality and barbarism. But in truth, these so-called “barbarians” were, in fact, not very barbaric at all. Recent discoveries challenged the long-accepted statement of Mongols being savage brutes, suggesting that they were perhaps wrongly labelled; the facts about them were twisted and lost to history.…
In Susan Whitfield’s Life Along the Silk Road, she takes primary sources from the Dunhuang Manuscripts to create conglomerate characters, proving the inaccuracy of the popular phrase “Silk Road, ” a label for popular trading networks that stretched all the way from Rome, Africa, India, and China. In her introduction, Whitfield makes it clear to her readers of the origin of the term “Silk Road.” The first to coin this phrase was a German geographer, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen. Many students throughout the years learn of the Silk Road as a single route from Rome to China, exchanging goods, especially the Chinese silk. This is, however, is a false narrative and extremely limiting definition of the trading network, itself.…
Some say that literature is a gateway to understanding history. In the case of ‘Rage Against the Machine’, the literature provided served to build a context for which we were to experience history. When a person can experience history, they are truly able to understand how the people of the day felt emotionally, socially, politically, and economically. For me, this was the most important takeaway of this game.…
The silver trade of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries was a major historical process. The global flow of silver had many effects on the multitude of societies that participated. There were many economic effects, such as the heavy global economic involvement of many Asian nations in this trade (Documents 2,4,6,7,8) and greater monetary pressure in China during the Ming Dynasty (Documents 1,3,5), and some social nuances because of this trade, such as a greater European desire for Asian goods (2,4,8), but the economic effects had a greater historical impact because this was the first time a global currency was present in trade. The Asian continent held many countries that engaged in the global silver trade, which had a substantial impact…
How the Silk Road expanded the different opportunities of Ancient China? Silk Road was the most important part of Han dynasties economy. It was appeared before the founding of Han dynasty, but the emperors of this dynasty, as Han Wudi, developed it, and make from Silk Road the way that connect many countries. Also, this action of emperor was very useful to China, because this road develop their economy, their culture and helped to spread their ideologies and take others’. I think that Silk Road was very important to Ancient China, in that point that with help of this road they reached many things as I wrote before.…
Roman Trade Roman regional and international trade was a common. A mix of state control and a free market economy made positive goods produced in one location could be exported far away and nearby. Cereals, wine and olive oil were exported in huge quantities while in the other direction came large imports of gold, marble, and spices. Romans over time developed a more intelligent economy after the production of an agricultural surplus, population movement and urban growth, national expansion, technological innovation, taxation, the spread of coinage, and the need to feed the city of Rome itself and supply its huge army wherever it might be fighting. Overall a need for more food and advanced technology pushed Rome to fix its own problems.…
Drawing from across the faces of Asia and Europe the Silk Road acted as a highway for anything and everything. From Russia and Tartary flowed some of the highest quality leathers and linens. Exported from Cathay were the finest silk clothes and jewelry. Embalmed with precious rubies, diamonds, and pearls the Empire created some of the most valuable merchandise to flow along the Silk Road.…
The Mongolian people once ruled the second largest empire in the history of humanity. The Mongol empire was famous for pioneering military tactics such as horse mounted archers, conquering much of the Eurasian supercontinent and ruling an empire whose size would not be matched until the British took to colonialism centuries later. But as with so many other great empires, people often forget the massive economy necessary to sustain such as vast empire. Millions of people living across an entire continent have a variety of needs and wants, no empire can survive for long without seeing to the needs of its people and keeping them satisfied enough to prevent rebellion. The Mongols understood this and as a result took great pains to ensure that the economy of its empire was well…
The Silk Road’s ancient trade routes allowed for cultural and material trade throughout the Mediterranean to East Asia. Xinru Liu’s The Silk Road in World History exemplifies the complex exchange of commodities and ideas between different nations and peoples. Starting with the Chinese looking west and ending with the Mongol conquest. Liu’s focus gives the reader examples of specific historic events that were only able to take place because of this intricate trade network.…