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Diffusion of Cultures

Explore the extensive trading networks and cultural exchanges that linked civilizations across continents from 600-1450AD. Discover the impact of major trade routes like the Silk Road, Indian Ocean routes, and Trans-Saharan routes, facilitating the exchange of goods, ideas, and beliefs. Learn about the interconnectedness of diverse cultures through the diffusion of goods and cultural practices. Delve into the role of Muslim merchants, guilds, and banking systems in shaping interregional trade dynamics.

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Diffusion of Cultures

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  1. Diffusion of Cultures Trade, Beliefs, and Goods

  2. Diffusion of Cultures • spread of ideas from central points • adaptation of ideas to local needs • creative additions • Innovation, Diffusion, Acculturation

  3. Major Trades Routes • Where were the major trades routes in the Eastern Hemisphere from 1000 to 1500AD? • Six Major Routes on or crossing three continents. • Africa • Asia • Europe • Trade routes connected most major civilizations.

  4. Major Trades Routes • All of these routes would connect with others at certain points. • This meant the world was connected by trade, even if most people never knew it. • These trade routes are one of the biggest reasons cultural diffusion took place. • These routes helped ideas, technologies, etc spread across the entire world.

  5. Silk Road Runs across Asia to the Mediterranean.

  6. Indian Ocean Routes from India to the Arabian Peninsula and Africa

  7. Sahara Desert Trans-Saharan Routes spread goods such as Gold and Salt across the great desert.

  8. The Black Sea Northern Europeans traveled by land and river to the black Sea to trade with places like Constantinople and beyond.

  9. Western Europe Western Europeans depended on major rivers and seas/the ocean to trade their goods.

  10. Southeast Asia People crossed the China Sea and “hopped” from Island to island in Southeast Asia to trade their goods.

  11. Cultural diffusion

  12. From 600-1450 interregional trade in both the Indian Ocean and Trans Sahara were dominated by Muslim merchants interconnected through regulations of the Sharia and fostered by guilds, banking systems and Islamic Scholarships, both utilized Arabic as the lingua franca (language of trade) to foster trading relationships, however, the influence of the Sudanic Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai would be felt only as far as the Mediterrean trading Gold for Salt whilst the Swahili city-state’s exports and imports of sugar, spices and ivory could be felt as far away as the Indian sub-continent, South China and the Malay peninsula • Or • The Silk Route and Western Europe interregional trading networks 600-1450 were both predominantly overland routes connecting civilizations and empires through the spreading of goods like textiles and foodstuffs, both would utilize merchants whose advancements in financial institutions (guilds, banking, letters of credit) would facilitate more intensive trade, however, the Silk route had been in existence for many hundreds of years interconnection great trading empires like the Abbasid and Tang/Song Dynasties while Western European cities and guilds (Hanseatic League, Italian city-states) entered the picture later after the Middle Ages and did not flourish economically for many hundreds of years later.

  13. Diffusion of Cultures Trade, Beliefs, and Goods

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