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Trade Routes 1200-1450 (Silk Roads (Kashgar was another oasis city on…
Trade Routes 1200-1450
Indian Ocean
The Indian tade routes connected Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and East Africa, beggining at least as early as the third century
Silk Roads
Kashgar was another oasis city on the silk road that attracted major amounts of trade. Kashgar traded silk, spices, gold, and gemstones.
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The Silk Road prospered most when major trading cities provided security for merchants and travelers
Samarkand was an oasis city on the silk road that served as a crossroad and melting pot for cultures. Samarkand is one of the oldest trading cities on the silk road. It was very large and beautiful, like my face.
Paper money was discovered by Marco Polo in China. This lighter, and cheaper form of currency spread to western parts of Asia and eventually Europe through the silk road
The Silk Road allowed Merchants to become one of the most important social groups of all time. Merchants traveled down the silk road spreading religious ideas, technological advancements, rare items/goods.
Bills of exchange were letters of credit that were used when precious metals ran short. These bills basically allowed people to make money without even having the items at the moment.
Luxury goods from China were: Silk, Bamboo, Paper, Gunpowder, and Mirrors.
China dominated trade with Silk, until the secret of silkworms got out, and civilizations started producing their own silk.
Trans- Saharan
Requires travel across the Sahara (North and South) to reach North-African coast, Europe, to the Levant.
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Camel saddle originates from the Tuareg. The Tuareg have used caravans of camels for hundreds of years. The staple Tuareg trade is salt from the Bilma area.
Long distance trade in dhows and sailboats made it a dynamic zone of interaction between people, cultures, and civilizations sttretching from Java in the East to Zanzibar and mombasa in the west.
Growth of inter- regional trade in luxury goods was encouraged by innovations in previous existing transportation.
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Another major exportitem along the classical Indian Ocean trade routes was religious thought. Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism spread from India to Southeast Asia, brought by merchants rather than by missionaries. Islam would later spread the same way from the 700s.
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