The trade patterns remained the same in previous years. Not only goods and products were traded through out years, but even more importantly was the cultural interactions and diffusion that took place. For instance, the Muslim empires adapted paper money from the Chinese. This was very important when most of Asia was taken over by the Mongols. Kublai Khan expanded the network of the Silk Roads, trading heavily with the Dehli Sultanate and Ilkhanate to the south and south west, appropriately.
Some of the features that stayed the same are the routes, goods, greed and the monsoon winds. The routes branched from China through India and the rest of the Middle East on through Europe. At first, all the travel was done on the Silk Road with horses. Some of the goods that they transported are silk, pottery, tea, spices, medicines, etc. As their greed grew, the technology also grew.
Trade in the Indian Ocean was affected by different changes of many political powers and it was the main factor of spreading of religion, and linking cultures. Then Indian Ocean trade route kept transporting the same goods, but the way these goods were transported from place to place changed as technology advanced. The trade route in the Indian Ocean stayed the same by trading the same goods as they did in the beginning, such as ivory, wood and exotic animals from India from Africa in early trade and also traded spices with India such as: pepper, cinnamon, and ginger. Also, this route stayed the same culturally by having the same continuous spread of religious ideas like Muslim merchants who held the religion together by sharing a common belief and language. The political aspect of The Indian Ocean trade route stayed the same by evolving and successfully growing under the rule of strong empires.
Because of all this increased trade in the Indian Ocean, countries that lie on it began to move away from an agricultural mindset to one with ideas about specialized production. These countries knew that trade was booming in the Indian ocean so they began creating products that could be traded with other countries that were in high demand so they could make a lot of money. Also later on European countries tried to exclude the Muslim middle men, that made the most of goods from the Indian Ocean region, from the equation by sailing around Africa to the Indian Ocean. This led to many new
As well as there being changes for the English culture there was also a lot of continuity in their lifestyle such as the Anglo-Saxon style of long hair and bushy beards and moustaches. Changes were going to be inevitably made as their was a new leader of the land but there were still a lot of cultural and social policies which stuck and in reference to the question, this challenges whether there was a major change. A massive change that occurred was the expansion of cities such as London and this was due to French markets and the Norman building programme, by 1086 there was 100,000 burgesses in England and this signifies a major change during Williams kingship. Culturally, there was change and continuum as firstly there was a large number of castles built all around England and towns such as Oxford and Norwich suffered house clearing to allow room for the castles. There was also a continuity in culture though as there was a rich tradition of written English dating back to the 890’s and this survived through the Peterbrough book showing that not everything was changing during William’s reign.
Slavery and population had a big affect on the next 100 years of the United States history. The US also changed diversely with new innovations like roads, waterways, railroads, steamboats, and refrigerated railroad cars. A few new innovations that changed or improved from 1776 to 1870 are the roadways, waterways, railroads, steamboats, and refrigerated railroad cars. Roadways were an innovation that created a way for easier, and faster transportation. Waterways were also a way for transportation, to cut out a lot of land, and cut out time.
This similarity shows that, though neither civilization was dependent on it, land trade played an important role in the cultures of the two civilizations. These trade roads also played a large part in the cultural diffusion of Rome and Latin America. In Classical Latin America and the early years of Classic Rome, Mountainous terrain isolated cities, towns, and villages, but through the complex trade routes, these two civilizations could interact with their surrounding civilizations. Another similarity between the two cultures was that the Aztecs, a classical civilization of Latin America, and the Romans both conquered new territory for either political or economic reasons. With Rome conquering Western Europe and the Aztecs conquering the majority of Central America, the two civilizations gathered a large amount of wealth from the conquered states.
Looking back we can see that this was due to a lot of different pressures. Some were long-term, such as political advantage and urbanisation which did not immediately cause political change but eventually led to many changes. Some were some short-term, such as pressure groups, foreign influences and the support of new ideas, but they each led to an increase to the franchise. The social and economic changes that took place helped increase the franchise a lot. Britain's population was growing throughout the 19th century.
COT Essay: Silk Roads 100 BCE-500CE Mankind, since its earliest days, has always coveted what his neighbor possess. Thus, trade has been a driving force in almost every sophisticated society the Earth has seen. One particularly signifigant instance of trade between civilizations is the Silk Roads, which connected China, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean. Like all such trade routes, they underwent extensive change through the ages. During the period of 100 BCE-500CE, the Silk Roads went from prosperous and bustling to slightly decrepit and relativly unused, mostly because of the collapse of a number of empires which fueled its trade.
Monsoon winds aided sailors and merchants since travel time was shortened by sailing quickly with the wind. Monsoons emphasized maritime travel to get to different coasts of the Indian Ocean basin. For many Asian regions, the monsoons and maritime travel was the most efficient way to travel quickly. Maritime travel did not only attract many Asian regions but Portugal as well. In the late 1400s, a Portuguese captain and his sailors, Vasco da Gama came upon East-African city-states and pirated goods and raw materials, with the intent to control, but the attempt was a failure.