Indian Ocean

being used for centuries after. Indian ocean trade remained relatively peaceful, in spite of this the kingdoms and religions that dominated the region changed frequently.…

various changes and continuities have occurred both in the Indian Ocean as well as the Silk Roads due to the contacts between Africa, The Middle East and Asia. These routes were not only known for trade and commerce itself, but were also used for the spread of culture, religion, technology and political structures. This has led to the influence of cultural diffusion. Throughout the beginning of these time periods or 600 C.E., the Indian Ocean and Silk Roads made long distance trade available…

presents The Other Middle Passage as a discussion about the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. The main purpose of the essay is to shed light on what all was involved with the slave trade from East Africa. Alpers does an excellent job of comparing the way slaves were treated during this voyage and how they were treated when they reached their destinations. Both voyages, West to the Americas and East through the Indian Ocean, were just one part of the traumatic journey for these African Slaves.…

due to the expanding world economies. Trade also began to be considered as a profitable venture, especially with the European ideology of mercantilism, and new exchange routes were sought out. The first global economy developed because Chinese and Indian demand for silver made it a global currency, European expansion connected different regions of the world, and states actively promoted trade. This economy functioned as a polycentric world system of overlapping regional networks of exchange,…

1. The Code of Justinian, The Roman Emperor Justinian instructed his legal advisors to come together to create a set common set of laws that were to be used for his entire empire. The group of men wrote down the laws that were already in use and made sure they did not contradict one another. When they felt the laws were in order they named them “The Code of Justinian. The laws were so well written and were just that many nations used the Justinian codes when they were establishing their own laws…

“This was what became known as the “Silk Road” whereby some manufactured products but mainly hard currency found its way to the East and silk, spices, tea, etc found there way to the West” (Hilton et al. 124). Much like the Trans-Saharan and Roman-Indian trade routes, the link between civilizations would be a foundation for inter-connecting differing civilizations in the movement of goods across large geographic areas. This was a major positive development in the opening of trade between major…

The trade routes of Indian Ocean were dominated by Jews and Eastern Muslims. Zheng leads China to naval expeditions of the Indian Ocean. (Bernstein. W, 2009) Venice rises to the strength of Mediterranean trade with the Muslim world. Asian silk and spices reached Europe only with the help of trade with Muslims. The unstable Mamluk…

economy, population, and topography is diverse, the Indian automobile industry is one of the most competitive within the global landscape (The Economic Times) and currently represents 7.1…

Imagine being in a plane that ends up being one of the most mysterious plane crashes in history. You don’t have much time to live before it crashes. But remember that no one will find you once you’re gone… This plane is the Malaysia flight 370. One of the most mysterious plane crashes in history.. When Malaysia flight 370 was in motion, there were officials that tracked the plane, theories that were concluded from the evidence found from the plane , and ruins that were left after the crash.…

From 650 CE to 1750 CE the commercial life in the Indian Ocean Region changed dramatically due to the fall of the Mogul Empire. This affected the region that the Indian Ocean Region traded with. There was also a battle over control of the Indian Ocean Trade Region between the Arabs and the Portuguese, which shaped who controlled the trade region, the new goods that Europe received from the Americas, which affected the function of the coastal and semi-coastal, economic cities, the improvement of…