Intro to Part Three & Chapter 7 (Commerce & Culture)
Intro to Part Three: An Age of Accelerating Connections (500-1500)
Defining a Millennium- It has been difficult to determine when one phase of human history ends and when another phase begins as some people have disagreed on when each phase changes
Third- Wave Civilizations: Something New, Something old, Something Blended- have trouble identifying clearly defined features of the major civilizations or human communities during this period (500-1500) and to differentiate these groups from those that came before them
The Ties That Bind: Transregional Interactions in the Third-Wave Era- although it is difficult to determine an all-encompassing definition of the their-era wave, there is a common theme of communication or contact with strangers for their ideas, armies, goods, and even diseases
Chapter 7: Commerce and Culture
- The Silk Road lead to the exchange of products between inner and outer Eurasia which was warm and had water. It linked the civilizations on the western and eastern sides of Eurasia. For 2,000 years the Silk Road provided a way for goods, ideas, technologies, and diseases to make their way across Eurasia on the many routes.
- silk was a highly desire commodity as it was used at currency and it showed wealth (especially in china)
- Some consequences of the Silk Road include farmers giving up food crops to focus on silk and paper and porcelain, merchants gained fortunes, diseases were able to spread around
- Buddhism was spread along the Silk Road as it appealed to Indian merchants, those in Central Asia found a link in Buddhism, and silk was associated with Buddhism and silk showed wealth and status
- The impact of diseases on the Silk Road lead to. deaths, contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, the population and army declined
- The flourishing of the Indian Ocean commerce in the post classical millennium lead to economic and political revival of china, china provided technological innovations, china took over the products of the Indian Ocean trading network, and there was a rise in islam
- The voyage of Columbus help lead to the interaction of trade between the western and eastern hemispheres.
- American trade was not as impacted as those of the Afro- Eurasian as there was no interactive web trade between the Great Lakes to the Andes. Mesoamerica has the most prominent network of trade
I found this chapter to be interesting as it depicts how important trade and the kind of impact that trade has, as it can affect religion and social status.
Defining a Millennium- It has been difficult to determine when one phase of human history ends and when another phase begins as some people have disagreed on when each phase changes
Third- Wave Civilizations: Something New, Something old, Something Blended- have trouble identifying clearly defined features of the major civilizations or human communities during this period (500-1500) and to differentiate these groups from those that came before them
The Ties That Bind: Transregional Interactions in the Third-Wave Era- although it is difficult to determine an all-encompassing definition of the their-era wave, there is a common theme of communication or contact with strangers for their ideas, armies, goods, and even diseases
Chapter 7: Commerce and Culture
- The Silk Road lead to the exchange of products between inner and outer Eurasia which was warm and had water. It linked the civilizations on the western and eastern sides of Eurasia. For 2,000 years the Silk Road provided a way for goods, ideas, technologies, and diseases to make their way across Eurasia on the many routes.
- silk was a highly desire commodity as it was used at currency and it showed wealth (especially in china)
- Some consequences of the Silk Road include farmers giving up food crops to focus on silk and paper and porcelain, merchants gained fortunes, diseases were able to spread around
- Buddhism was spread along the Silk Road as it appealed to Indian merchants, those in Central Asia found a link in Buddhism, and silk was associated with Buddhism and silk showed wealth and status
- The impact of diseases on the Silk Road lead to. deaths, contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, the population and army declined
- The flourishing of the Indian Ocean commerce in the post classical millennium lead to economic and political revival of china, china provided technological innovations, china took over the products of the Indian Ocean trading network, and there was a rise in islam
- The voyage of Columbus help lead to the interaction of trade between the western and eastern hemispheres.
- American trade was not as impacted as those of the Afro- Eurasian as there was no interactive web trade between the Great Lakes to the Andes. Mesoamerica has the most prominent network of trade
I found this chapter to be interesting as it depicts how important trade and the kind of impact that trade has, as it can affect religion and social status.
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