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Today: 10/1 & 10/2. Practice Question Reading Quiz Lecture Exit. Chapter 5. Trade . Trade routes have been developing throughout the Classical Era: Silk Road Indian Ocean trade Saharan Trade Sub-Saharan Trade . Silk Road. Eurasia Overland from China to the Mediterranean
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Today: 10/1 & 10/2 • Practice Question • Reading Quiz • Lecture • Exit
Trade • Trade routes have been developing throughout the Classical Era: • Silk Road • Indian Ocean trade • Saharan Trade • Sub-Saharan Trade
Silk Road • Eurasia • Overland from China to the Mediterranean • Possible because of Camels • Not just one line of trade • Who: Central Asian Nomads most important
Indian Ocean Trade • Ocean Trade: Canton, SE Asia, India Africa and Middle East • Arabs very important
Saharan Trade • Overland from the West Africa to Mediterranean • Cairo very important • Berbers very important
Sub-Saharan Trade • Connected Africa South and East of the Sahara to other states • Bantu people very important
Herding People • As you can see herding people in Central Asia, Middle East and Africa are very important to the trading of stuff. • Technology, ideas, cultural diffusion • This will continue to grow in importance as the eras change
New Places • We focused on the big 3 • BUT there are still other places to look at as they begin to develop • Discuss: Where else is developing
South East Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Such as: Kush: took over Egypt for awhile Axum: Contact with Eastern Mediterranean Ethiopia: Will become a Christian Civilization • Contact with India • Participated in trade • Got Buddhism and Art
Western Africa Europe Regional group s Vying for power as Rome began to fall More primative • Ghana: 1st great state in this region begins to develop
Japan Americas Olmec: central American earliest civilization Little is known Teotihuacan Mayan Inca(Moche) • Regional tribal political organizations developed • Developed a distinct religion: Shinto • More advanced
Polynesia • Fiji • Samoa • Making their way slowly across the pacific
New Religious Map • Outside the 3 core areas • Shamanism and animism continues to hold strong • Death rates increasing+ Political Instability= New faith developing • WHY • Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam Spreading across the known world
Spread of Religion • Christianity spread West • Jesus is the son of God • There is a single God who loved human kind despite their sins • Paul important in the spreading of “the word” • Buddhism Spread East
Decline of the Classical Era • We have already talked about what happened in Rome
Han • Had a strong political base to keep them from complete destruction • Internal problems: corrupt bureaucracy, heavy taxes • Daoisim grew in popularity and a revolt occurred • Yellow turbans • Boarder nomads, disease, • 3 decades of unrest: Sui
India • Had religion to keep them from complete destruction • Gupta cant keep regional control • Hun invasion • Rajput develop • Why do I say India is like a Black Hole????