Thesis: Although there were similarities between the Atlantic Circuit and Silk Road trade routes, there were more significant differences. The first similarity between the Silk Road and the Atlantic Circuit was that both trade routes created a spread of religion and syncretism and adaptations of current religions. For example, the Atlantic Circuit spread and created new adaptations of African religions; in the West Indies, slaves were encouraged to adopt Catholic religious practices, but slaves also continued African religion, beliefs in deities, and practices, which served as the foundation for for African-derived religions like candomblé. The Silk Road spread Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Judaism.…
During the 600s to the 1450s, trading was mostly done by land. There were long-distance trading occurring then, but not as much sea travel and ocean trade routes as in the 1450s to 1750s time period. The post-classical period (600-1450) included the long-distance trade from the European to the African kingdoms. However, there wasn’t any constant trading happening between the eastern and western hemisphere. On the other side, during the time frame after this (1450-1750), trading was constant with the western and eastern hemispheres now connected by sea-based travel. World trade patterns where happening due to the Atlantic Ocean trade eventually crossing of the Pacific Ocean. Trading began with small items and grew to even humans, slaves. Trade routes influenced the cultures and belief systems back then also. Connections between different people brought both positive and negative effects. Technology also improved because of necessary traveling items.…
“No nation was ever ruined by trade.” This quote was said by Benjamin Franklin in the late 1700s. These words are so simple, and it seems like anyone could have said them. However, this quote has a bigger meaning in that throughout world history, trade has been so important to so many countries and it has led to many empires successes. It has occurred for a very long time, and it has progressed dramatically. Trade has changed a lot, but some parts of trade stayed the same over a long periods of time. In the era between 300 CE and 1450 CE, trade between Eurasia and Africa changed because the empires and kingdoms in power were replaced and their control over trade differed; trade also changed because of new technologies. However, trade in this era stayed the same because some of the major trading goods were constant throughout this era.…
Although the silk road and the Indian ocean trading network both diffused religions,technology,and the transfer of goods. However the silk road supported a strong state for defenses, primarily traded in luxury goods that did not benefit the common man, different religions diffused on each of the trade networks as well. The indian ocean network on the other hand dealt in the trade of bulk goods such as timber and spice’s. The indian ocean network was also never controlled by one large group. The Indian ocean network was often not considered a relay trade where one group gave the goods and the other side received them,but on the silk road the trade was continued one group gave goods to another and then they traded that for something else with…
Many indirect factors were spread by trade. Trade became the vehicle for the spread of religious ideas, technological innovations, disease-bearing germs, and plants and animals to regions far from there places of origin. Trade also shaped a lot of societies, whether it was politically, structurally, or economically. Economically it often altered consumption, for example enabling West Africans to import scarce salt, necessary for human diets and useful for seasoning and perserving food, from distant mines in the Sahara in exchange for the gld of their region. Trade affected day to day life allowing peasants to give up there jobs for much better paying jobs that produced goods much more valuable on the Silk Road. Trade also shaped the structures of these societies. Traders often became a distinct social group, viewed by suspicion of others because of there impusle to accumalate wealth without actually producing anything themselves. In some societies such as China, trade became a social mobility. Merchants were able to purchase landed estates and establish themselves within the gentry of the class. Political life was also sometimes transformed by trade, the wealth available from controlling and taxing trade motivated the creation of states in various parts of the world sustained those states once they had been constructed. But trade also posed a question to governments everywhere, should trade be left in private hands (Aztec Empire) or should it be controlled by the state (Inca Empire)? Buddhism made its way from India to Central and East Asia, and Islam crossed the Sahara into the West Africa. So did the pathogens that devastated much of Eurasia during the Black Death. These immense cultural and biological transformations were among the most significanct outcomes of the increasingly dense networkds of long-distance commerce during the era of third-wave civilization.…
Between the years of 100 and 1450 trade developed and thrived between different regions of the world. These regions included Africa, Europe, and Asia, and the Americas. Trade was established between these areas using different trade routes. As these areas traded more than just goods were spread. Ideas, religion, and technology were spread along the trade routes. These cultural aspects were combined with traditional cultures to create new syncretic societies. These trade patterns led to cultural consequences amongst all people involved in the trade.…
The trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 CE to 1450 CE experienced many changes in their merchandise trade and who they traded with. Also, there were continuities involving their methods of trade. Among these changes and continuities technological advancements were made and cultural and political aspects were also affected.…
Although Christianity and Buddhism both flourished through social interaction over the silk roads, which lead to immense cultural exchange, there were various reasons linked to religious diffusion which were greatly taken advantage of with respect to regional and religious distinctions. Starting in 200 BCE and developing well into 700 CE, the silk roads and sea routes spanned across most of Asia, linking the Roman Empire with China and other prominent civilizations of Egypt, Persia, Iran, Anatolia, India and the Steppe lands into a booming, deviating tree of cultural exchange. While Christian missionaries traverse along the silk roads to the west and sea routes in the Mediterranean basin, Buddhist merchants utilized the monsoon system of the Indian Ocean and also the eastern branches of the Silk Road to spread their faith. With that said, beginning at about the middle of the 1st century CE, Christianity primarily spread through trade routes from influential missionaries, such as Paul of Tarsus, who sought converts from non-Jewish communities in the Hellenistic world and within the Roman Empire. Paul traveled widely in order to attract converts, making numerous journeys through Greece, Syria, Anatolia, and Palestine to offer guidance for Christian communities before being swiftly executed in Rome due to social tensions regarding his attempts to spread Christianity among roman settlements. Likewise, other Christian missionaries like…
One of the world’s largest and flourishing arrangements of trade came from Eurasia. It is know as the Silk Roads, this is a land based trade system and these routes have connected agriculture and pastoral people. Along with big civilizations on the continent’s border. No one knew the length of the networks’ of trade, it was a “relay trade” which is when goods are passed down the border. The Silk Roads began by blossoming in the early centuries, they provided safety for merchants and travelers, a large array of good made its way across the roads.…
The cultural diffusion that resulted from trade on the Trans-Saharan and Silk Road trade routes differed because of the ethnic backgrounds of the merchants and…
During the time between 200 B.C.E and 1450 C.E, many profound transformations were made to the Silk Road, but it still held on to its original purpose. Although the similarities may outweigh the changes, the Silk Road diffused disease along with culture, adapted to overseas trade, helped to forge a connection between Asian and European markets and triggered periods of Enlightenment in Europe.…
Throughout the period 200 BCE to 1450 CE, the Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes connecting the Western and Eastern Empires that were central to cultural diffusion through areas of the Asian continent. The Silk Road played an extremely important role in the growth of trade and the exchanging of culture, language, ideas, and religion. During this time period in Western Europe many changes took place, however the main purpose of the Silk Road stayed intact. In 200 BCE, Western Europe relied heavily on trade with Chinese merchants which supported the growth of both cultures. Over time, Western Europe and Asia became increasingly infatuated with the new luxuries exposed to them through the Silk Road, resulting in the shaping of each culture.…
After giving us a better understanding of the geography of the Silk Road, Foltz dives into the different religions that one would come across on the Silk Road and the impact that was made. Foltz starts with one of the oldest religions, Zoroastrianism, and supplies the fundamentals on Iranian and European religions. Buddhism traveled from India to China along the Silk Road spreading the word and the beliefs of the religion along the way. Temples and sanctuaries were established, schools were built, and shrines were erected. Chinese Buddhists would travel along the Silk Road to India to gain as much knowledge about the religion as they could. These pilgrimages took place until the Muslim religion was introduced in the 8th century. There were…
The Trans-Saharan and the Indian Ocean trade are two of the most important trade routes during the Post Classical Era (600CE- 1450CE) especially during the rise of African civilization and the Middle Ages. Both of these trade routes spread wealth, were Arab controlled, and a significant aspect for the dissemination of Islam; however, the differences in geography and resources traded set them apart from each other.…
Analyze the changes and continuities in patterns of interactions along the Silk Road from 200 B.C.E to 1450 C.E.…