Roman Maritime Trade Analysis

I was unaware of the fact that the Romans had such a huge impact on the maritime trade. I knew that they had boats that were capable; but I had never realized the full extent of their impact. It is interesting how quickly the Indian culture icked up the trade as well. The shipbuilding occurring in India is unlike others and the insight that they have to possess in order to build them without sketches and only a vision is something I highly respect. Also the insight into the patterns of the oceans/seas that they provided us with that would have otherwise been discovered at a much later date is fascinating. For example, the naval man that wrote a book over the ports and the trade that was occurring is extremely revered to me de to my interest …show more content…
The next point of the video that I found interesting was the fact that silk did not originate in India. This broke down a false mindset that I had. I have never been taught that the silk originated in China and then went to India and from there was dispersed to the world or that the caravan was not the most popular trade route. These preconceptions had skewed my ability to understand these cultures to my full ability and I was intrigued by the detailed information gave about the landscape. I was fully unaware of the many obstacles that had to be crossed to simply get the silk to India, let alone to Rome. This peaks my interest about where and how my goods get to me and the people around me. It is fascinating that the silk went to India in order to be adorned and was then seen as the beautiful pieces of cloth that we think of today. While I found the entire film very intriguing there were parts that stuck out in my mind. Those parts were the abilities of the Romans to learn from their mistakes and deduct knowledge from the previously unknown and also both the way that thing arrived in India along with the one specific valuable that traveled to Rome,