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Trade Networks and Cultural Diffusion

Trade Networks and Cultural Diffusion. 600-1450. A New Era in Trade. Trade exploded on the world scene between 600 and 1450. Trade was aided through better boats, better roads, monetary systems, lines of credit, and accounting methods.

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Trade Networks and Cultural Diffusion

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  1. Trade Networks and Cultural Diffusion 600-1450

  2. A New Era in Trade • Trade exploded on the world scene between 600 and 1450. • Trade was aided through better boats, better roads, monetary systems, lines of credit, and accounting methods. • People began to keep records and lend money which established a business trade relationship.

  3. Major Trade Routes • Mediterranean Trade: between western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic Empire • The Hanseatic League • The Silk Road (1200-1600) • Land routes of the Mongols • Between China and Japan • Between India and Persia (Indian Ocean Trade) • Trans-Saharan trade routes between west Africa and the Islamic Empire

  4. Hanseatic League • Collection of city-states in the Baltic and North Sea regions of Europe • Banded together in 1241 to establish common trade practices, fight off pirates and foreign governments, and make a trade monopoly • More than 100 countries joined • Created a substantial middle class in northern Europe • Set a precedent for large, European trading operations that affected the Dutch and English

  5. Silk Trade • Connected China to the Mediterranean cultures • Established in the early Roman Empire • Used heavily during the reign of the Mongols (1200-1600) • Carried silk, porcelain, paper, food, and religious ideas • Spread Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity

  6. Indian Ocean Trade • Between 600 and 1450, the Persians and the Arabs dominated I.O.T. • The trade routes connected ports in western India to ports in Persian Gulf, which in turn were connected to ports in eastern Africa. • Boats were resilient to large waves • Used the monsoon seasons and direction of winds to schedule their voyages

  7. Indian Ocean Trade (cont.) • This route tended to be safer than Mediterranean Trade because there was less warfare • Sailors often married the local women at the ends of their trade routes, so cultures spread and intermixed rapidly

  8. Sub-Saharan African trade • The Bantu people spread their culture throughout sub-Saharan Africa during their migrations. • Religion (Christianity) was spread along the trade routes from Ethiopia to sub-Saharan Africa. • By the fifteenth century the spread of Islam was associated with the spread of literacy. • Islamic learning centers were established along the trade routes during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

  9. A Global Network? • After 1200 the world was very interconnected • If you link the trade routes, goods could make their way from England to Persia to India to Japan. • Goods could travel from Muscovy to Mali • The network was a web of interconnected but highly-independent parts. • No one person managed it, but all major civilizations (except those in the Americas) were a part of it.

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