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Impact of Trade
What is trade?
• The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.
Impact of trade?
• Positives:• 1- new ways of thinking (religion)• 2- new discoveries
(food/governments/natural resources, etc.)• 3- cultures coming together• 4- new cities emerge
Impact of trade?
• Negative:• 1- forced slavery• 2- war over new lands• 3- death (from wars or diseases)
Silk Roads 100 B.C.
• Linked Mesopotamia (Middle East) to China for 1st time.
• Chinese had silk (no other parts of the world had this)
• China began exploring and made way to Mesopotamia.
• Need for silk grows in Mesopotamia and trade routes are made from there to China.
Silk Roads 100 B.C.
• New cities were formed as a result!
West African Trading (1000)• West Africa is rich in gold.
• Europeans rushed down to dominate area and become rich.
• Those who wanted gold traded with SALT!
West African Trading (1000)• SALT was most valuable trading item of this
time.
• Used to flavor and preserve food and keep you alive
• SALT more valuable than GOLD!
African Slave Trade (1500s)
• Africans were used as forced manual labor by the Europeans to work on plantations…FREE LABOR!
• Slaves traded for valuable goods
• Part of Triangular Trade
Triangular Trade (1500s)
• Trade routes from Europe, Africa and Americas
Columbian Exchange (1500-1600s)
• Exchange of goods, plants, foods, animals and diseases from New and Old World
• DISEASES FROM OLD WORLD KILLED AMERICAN NATIVES (no immune system)
Dutch East India Company (1602)
• Dutch led the way in trading • Wealthy Dutch merchants came together and
formed Dutch East India Company
• Was more power than anyone else because they were not governed by a government (like Spain or Portugal)
Dutch East India Company (1602)
• The men were independent and had freedom to make their own rules, build armies, go to war and dominate countries!
• Created new trades as a result!
Crusades• Series of Holy Wars against Christians and
Muslim to regain “holy land” is Israel.
• Christians lost BUT led to more trade and exploration from visiting their land!
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