Their agricultural strength was another component that added to the empire’s power. Trade was also important in the Muslim world. The Islamic people traded across the silk roads, linking once again China and the Mediterranean basin. Agricultural production would increase the amount of cities in the Arabs making refined business practices a necessity. This would cause the establishment of banks and the sakk, a forerunner of checks.
Document 4 shows how Northern and Central Africa were connected, with part of the connection stemming from the Middle East, a prominent area of Muslims. Document 7 shows the extensive spread of the Mongol Empire, with the outer edges stretching into central Europe. With the Mongols came Islam as well, so the expansion of the empire certainly helped bring the religion and its traders into Europe. Document 10 shows how trade was concentrated throughout Europe, with prominent cities of Muslim inhabitance in the connection, later connecting to North Africa as well. Thus, through this extensive network, Muslims made a bigger cultural impression in Africa.
Population growth and subsequent increases in economic activity are the catalyst for movement of people to common areas. In the case of Australian, towns & cities emerged as people emigrated from Europe; largely from the UK in the 18th and 19th centuries. Together in population growth, the growth in ideas and innovations lead to new industries and economics. From the time of colonisation, Sydney was a town with an economy based around the maritime industry. As it was located next to an ocean port, manufacturing and trade in commodities was central to its growth.
DBQ Islam cities In the postclassical Islam world, cities played major roles in creating the first global civilization, Islam. They played a huge part in trade and in religion, while providing people with a safe place to live, and promoting the general welfare. These cities were the roots of the Arab peninsula, and helped shape the modern day Middle East. The cities were located along trade routes, and served as checkpoints for traders and merchants during their travels. These cities were centers for trade and home to very diverse populations as Marco Polo explains in document six.
Quilon was a midpoint to unload and to pick up passengers and commodities from the west. Most of the Muslim traders settled in Malabar, on the southwest coast of the Indian peninsula, this made Quilon become a major cosmopolitan hub. The Chinese junks from Quanzhou made very frequent trips to Quilon to unload silks and porcelain and commodities for East Asian markets. All of these cities, thrived off each other through the help of trade. Most of these cities shared new life-changing parts of their own culture with one another.
The Netherlands likewise established trading posts in Indonesia and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 3. Europeans in Asia respected and frequently cooperated with local rulers in India, China, Japan, Indonesia, and other areas where trade flourished between locals and European coastal trading centers. B. The New World was the exception 1. Spain established an enormous empire in Central and South America and lay claim to large portions of western North America.
Western Europe’s expansion of Atlantic trade, through exploration and colonization, not only improved their own economy, but also the economy of America, through sharing new trade products and crops as well as beginning the slave trade. Western Europe began exploring other parts of the world around the mid-1400s. They first started out with primarily explorers from Portugal and Spain. Some of these people were Christopher Columbus, Francisco
C/C 2008 - Compare the emergence of nation-states in nineteenth-century Latin America with the emergence of nation-states in ONE of the following regions in the twentieth century. • Sub-Saharan Africa • The Middle East CCOT 2007 - Analyze continuities and changes in nationalist ideology and practice in ONE of the following regions from the First World War to the present: • Middle East • Southeast Asia • Sub-Saharan Africa C/C 2007 - Compare the historical processes of empire building in the Spanish maritime empire during the period from 1450 through 1800 with the historical processes of empire building in ONE of the following land-based empires. • The Ottoman Empire OR • The Russian Empire CCOT 2006 - Analyze continuities and changes in the cultural and political life of ONE of the following societies. • Chinese, 100 CE to 600
Trade between India and Europe had begun long before the rise of the Roman Empire, but it extended during the first century when sailors figured out patterns of monsoon winds. Commerce between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean was widespread and often lucrative. It resulted in the organization of quite a few small trading settlements along the Indian coast. Rome imported ivory, indigo, textiles, precious stones, and pepper from India and silk from China. The Romans occasionally paid cash for these items but also exported silver, wine, perfume, slaves, and glass and cloth from Egypt.
This affected the Axum Empire in many ways. They (Axum people) had gained wealth because it was a great trade point and from it, it was introduced to religions, Christianity and Islam. Another empire is called the Kingdom of Ghana in Western Africa. They became one of the richest civilizations due to commerce. In document two, it states that the amount of wealth was visible because of what the pages were wearing.