In the Byzantine Empire, trade played a very important role in their economic system. These Romans traded across the revived silk roads and the Mediterranean Sea, which made Constantinople the center of commerce and wealth. Due to their highly developed structure, the Byzantines were able to develop banks and businesses. These advanced practices were integral to the empire’s success. Their agricultural strength was another component that added to the empire’s power.
Sarina Davidson AP World History 7th Pd. 10 / 28 / 12 During the post classical era there was the break and fall of various different classical empires, there was the spread of great world religions, there was a medieval world, there was a renaissance, but most importantly there was the growth of trade and interaction. One of the main reasons why our world has evolved is because of trade. Trade works so well because different regions and give and take. The Islamic world had the rise and role of Dar al-Islam that was a way of unifying cultural and economic forces in Eurasia and Africa.
This gave the early Christian civilization of Germany time to acquire sufficient strength to roll back the returning tide of Mohammedan invasion when it broke upon Europe in the fifteenth century. Social Effects of the Crusades The Social effects of the Crusades upon the social life of the Western nations were marked and important. The Crusades afforded an opportunity for romantic adventure. The Crusades were therefore one of the principal fostering influences of Chivalry. Contact with the culture of the East provided a general refining influence.
Strabo discusses the geography of Campania Next after Neapolis comes the Heraclean Fortress, with a promontory which runs out into the sea and so admirably catches the breezes of the southwest wind that it makes the settlement a healthful place to live in. Both this settlement and the one next after it, Pompaia (past which flows the River Sarnus), were once held by the Osci; then, by the Tyrrheni and the Pelasgi; and after that, by the Samnitae; but they, too, were ejected from the places. Pompaia, on the River Sarnus-a river which both takes the cargoes inland and sends them out to sea is the port-town of Nola, Nuceria, and Acherrae (a place with name like that of the settlement near Cremona). Above these places lies Mt. Vesuvius, which,
The canal was also of economic significance as historian Simon Smith reminds us that ‘80% of the Suez traffic was British, and13% of Britain’s trade passed through the canal’ , this is due to most of Britain’s trade with India passing through the Suez. This dual economic and strategic importance of the Suez shows a strong symbiotic relationship. Britain’s taking of colonies for joint strategic and economic motives can be traced all over the continent. Another example of this is the Island of Zanzibar, of the east coast of Africa. Zanzibar was a strategic asset to Britain as it allowed it to monitor German presence around the Indian Ocean, in case Germany threatened India and Britain’s colonies in East Africa, As well
Muslim traders advanced and took control of established trade routes on both of the continents, according to Muslim Trade Networks, in order to expand the network of trade they already possessed. The established trade routes explain why Baghdad was chosen by the Abbasids as the capital and why the Sahara desert was not considered an obstacle in the eyes of the Arabs. They describe the many routes that Muslims had to other continents and cities so that trade and religion could unite the vast empire as said in Muslim Trade Networks. The Muslim trade routes made up a true “network” because it was connected over vast amounts of land and conquests. “Under the Abbasids, the center of the Moslem world was the city of Baghdad…not chosen by inadvertence…” says Document A.
Xavier Baker Chapter 3-Age of Exploration Section 1 Assessment 1.Dutch East India Company was formed to establish and direct trade throughout Asia. -Treaty of Tordesillas was a treaty signed by Spain and Portugal -Vasco De Gama was a Portuguese Explorer who explored the east African coast. -Prince Henry was the son of Portugal’s king. -Bartolomeu Dias was an early Portuguese explorer. 2.Europeans seek new trade routes is the most significant because it opened up new trading opportunities.
Mecca is located in what is now present day Saudi Arabia, about half way down the Western side of the Arabian Peninsula. The Kaaba, the black Islamic stone shrine established by Abraham and Ishmael, is located there. Mecca is deeply rooted in tradition, and the stones and Kaaba were erected or associated with Holy Ground, where individuals had a dramatic experience with God or Allah as he is called in Islam. During the time of Mohammed, Mecca had became a easy stopping place for the caravans and merchants along the spice trade which brought new wealth, foreign ideals and social values to Mecca. Being the stopping point brought to Mecca a host of undesirables such as; merchants, prostitutes swindlers and gamblers, whose social values would clash with that of the Arab Bedouin, who clung to traditional ideologies (Grand Canyon University, 2010, p. 1-2, para.
It also borders the Mediterranean Sea, a major artery of conquest and trade. The region is valued as much for its location as for its religious history. The location itself may have been reason enough for people to settle there. In turn, those people developed civilizations that gave rise to the religions that have spent centuries competing for the sacred soil. 2.
It is writer Jimmy Chi’s birthplace and where he still lives today. Where the desert meets the sea, Broome has a unique cultural and economic history. In the 1870s it was established as a pearling port attracting workers from all over South East Asia as well as European pearl traders, and with it the influence of Catholicism. This created a cultural melting pot of Malay, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Filipino and Greek immigrants who intermarried with the local Indigenous