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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• Possible because of Camels• Not just one line of trade

• Who: Central Asian Nomads most important

Trade West to East: Horses, Alfalfa, grapes, melons, walnuts

East to West: Silk, Peaches, Apricots, Spices, Pottery, Paper

Cultural Diffusion

Chariots, Horse stirrups, Buddhism, Christianity

Indian Ocean Trade• Ocean Trade: Canton, SE Asia, India Africa and Middle East• Arabs very important

Trade Pigments, pearls, spices, tropical fruits

Cultural Diffusion

Lateen Sail

Saharan Trade • Overland from the West Africa to Mediterranean • Cairo very important

• Berbers very important

Trade Salt from South and West SaharaGold from West AfricaWheat and Olives from Italy

Cultural Diffusion

Camel Saddle

Sub-Saharan Trade• Connected Africa South and East of the Sahara to other states• Bantu people very important

Trade Agricultural products, Iron weapons and later religion

Cultural Diffusion

Bantu Language

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

• Contact with India• Participated in trade• Got Buddhism and Art

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Such as:• Kush: took over Egypt for

awhile• Axum: Contact with

Eastern Mediterranean• Ethiopia: Will become a

Christian Civilization

Western Africa

• Ghana: 1st great state in this region begins to develop

Europe

• Regional group s• Vying for power as Rome

began to fall• More primative

Japan

• Regional tribal political organizations developed• Developed a distinct

religion: Shinto• More advanced

Americas

• Olmec: central American earliest civilization• Little is known• Teotihuacan

• Mayan• Inca(Moche)

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

Christianity

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????