Trade routes

Trade Routes in the Ancient World Ancient civilizations paved way for the ideas, values, and commodities that people still use to this day and are accustomed to using in their daily lives. As each civilization flourished, they had distinct characteristics which made them unique, nevertheless they had similarities with other civilizations that related on not only a geographical level but a cultural and developmental level as well. For all the civilizations to flourish as a whole, products that were only cultivated in certain areas had to be able to move from civilization to civilization. That is where trade routes became the most important. Trade routes were in charge of exporting and importing products from other civilizations, therefore increasing…

1. The Indian Ocean Basin Trade routes connected Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and East Africa. Long distance sea trade moved across a web of routes linking all of those areas as well as East Asia (particularly China). On the other hand, Central Asia was the largest empire in the world history, controlling Tibet, Northern China, and Persia. Also, Islam would flourish in Central Asia/The Chinese transferred the skill of paper making. Through the Mongols, Islamic mathematics and astronomy spread…

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…

Europe, Africa, Asia, and later on the Americas became interwoven in a monumental and successful trade network prior to 1500. The prospects of trade increased with new technological advances such as shipbuilding, as well as the desire for goods and resources that were found in different countries and continents. The motives for trade were not only to acquire resources and goods that could not be found in one’s own country, but also for the expansion of countries whether that was through the…

Throughout these projects I expanded my knowledge about the birth of economics, and Venetian trade. As well as how important Cyprus is and how Shakespeare used it to demonstrate the effect of having emotions rather than logic take control of Othello's actions. Venice became such an important trade route on the silk road, and influenced the history of economics. Venice became a leading international exporter because it was in between western Europe and Constantinople. Which was a perfect…

When I was in level five at Mrs.Jewele’s class we were learning about something that led us into “The Triangular Trade Route” topic. It was interesting for me because it was like almost a big part of the american history to import stuff in three different countries in the world. From Europe to Africa to the Americas then back to Europe then the whole system starts again starting from Europe. So as I was selecting a topic to research for NHD, I remembered about what we learned in level…

Importance of the Trade Route Have you ever heard of the Mayan civilizations? The Mesoamerican region has been home to the Mayan civilization for 3000 years. The Mayan were isolated from everyone until about 500 years ago. In this essay the ideas that will be talked about are scale, genius, effort, and significance. In this essay the topic that will be hit is the trade route. The first idea will be scale it was very big because everyone used it. It helped them for resources and it also makes…

influenced, changed, and improved by trade since the beginning of time; this was made possible by trade routes that connected different groups and spread over the expanse of land and sea. Trade routes are the sole reason we are so connected to one another as a population- due to the fact that trade routes allow for the spread of different cultures, beliefs, technology, knowledge, and other odds and ends- all of which shaped and continue to shape the world to the way it is now. There was not…

When Ancient Rome was at its peak, Romans were expanding their power all throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. Their territory stretched from England, all the way to Africa. In order to keep control of their growing empire, the Romans had to adapt and use their geography to their advantage. Two ways they did this were setting up trade routes and a road system. One of the first ways Romans adapted to their geography was to establish an exceedingly large trade route system over the Mediterranean…

Although the early post classical Silk Road and sub-Saharan trade routes were both very political trade routes, they had differences such as their level of exposure and outside influences and the cultural differences along the trade routes like musical rituals for Sub-Sahara and artisan goods on the Silk Road. Both the Sub-Saharan and Silk Road trade routes had significant political involvement in their trading economies. The Sub-Saharan trade route was the basis of the economy and politics in…