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Transregional Trade Routes

Transregional Trade Routes. The Silk Road. Silk Road. Silk Road: Connection between East and West Overland Route Named after most sought after item. Origin. Series of Roads beginning around 200 BCE Created for caravan paths in the Han Empire to exact tribute from conquests and trade.

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Transregional Trade Routes

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  1. Transregional Trade Routes

  2. The Silk Road

  3. Silk Road • Silk Road: Connection between East and West • Overland Route • Named after most sought after item

  4. Origin • Series of Roads beginning around 200 BCE • Created for caravan paths in the Han Empire to exact tribute from conquests and trade

  5. Spread of Agricultural Innovations in China • Powered trip hammer: a tool used to pound, separate, and polish grain • Square-pallet chain pump: used to pump water

  6. Extent of Silk Road • 4,000 miles • Connected Western China with Central Asia, Persian Empire, and Roman Empire

  7. Spread of Disease • Bubonic Plague: disease spread through the Silk Road • 100 to 600 CE- killed ¼ and ½ of China’s population, weakened Han empire • 540 CE- spread to Persian, Roman, and Gupta Empires

  8. Indian Ocean Trade Routes

  9. Benefits of Ocean Trade Routes • Faster • Safer • Carry larger amounts

  10. Expansion of Trade Routes • Marine technology: • Lateen sails: triangular sails, allow

  11. African Trade Routes

  12. Trans-Saharan Trade Route • Trans-Saharan caravan route: trade relationship with people living in West Africa south of the Sahara and the Mediterranean and the Middle East • Camel: “ship of the desert” • Berbers: nomads of the Sahara desert • Facilitators of Saharan trade

  13. Berbers

  14. Sub-Saharan Trade Route

  15. Bantu People • People unifying Sub-Saharan Africa with a common language

  16. Monsoon Winds • Winds blowing from East Africa to India

  17. Trade and Cultural diffusion • India and East African trade

  18. Trade in Central America

  19. Teotihuacan • Major trading center with Maya

  20. Maya • Trade with Teotihuacan, Zapotec of Oaxaca Valley, Taino people of Cuba

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