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Silk Road (Sea Roads (Srivijaya (lots of gold, Had spices), Indian ocean…
Silk Road
Sea Roads
Mediterranean Sea
Indian ocean worlds largest sea based system of trrade
Monsoons
Got products in the bolk
became increasingly Islamic
Srivijaya
lots of gold
Had spices
Khmer Kingdom of Angkor
Borobudur
Disease in Transit
430-429 BCE Athens infected by Egypt killed 25% of population
Bubonic plague
Anthrax
Helped spread Christianity
Byzantine Empire faced with plague by rats
killed thousands a day for 40 days
Linked large civilizations and pastoral and agricultural people
Cultures in Transit
Religion spread on the road
Sodians translated Buddhist script for the Chinese
Merchants could earn merit by building monasteries for Buddhism
Shi Le
Linked the two sides of Eurasia together
Civilizations would protect merchants on long distance travel.
Goods in Transit
Items usually only for the rich
Sand Roads
Connected west Africa
Mostly nomadic people
Mind Gold
Sudan
Land of black peopel
Jenne-jeno
Wanted gold
Powerful women were scary
Arabs made caravans across the desert
Silk made in china by 3000 BCE
Men and Women moved silk
Women would make the silk
Made from the silkworm cocoons
Western Hemisphere
Aztecs and Incas had little communication
Geographic
Cahokia
Private trade
Andean Inca had state run opperations
Paid off barbarians with silk
Central Asia used as a currency