Ancient Trade Routes Today we will work on our understanding of trade during Time Period I and II. We will look at routes, goods, and primary sources in

Ancient Trade RoutesToday we will work on our understanding of trade

during Time Period I and II. We will look at routes, goods, and primary sources in this

presentation. On your blank map, carefully draw the major routes presented, some of the empires involved, major goods traded, major inventions’ original locations, and the path of the spread of

ideas, as we discussLabel each of the 3 routes in a different color.

3 Main Trade RoutesLocation

• Silk Roads – land route across Eurasia• Indian Ocean Maritime System –around the

Indian Ocean• Trans-Saharan Route – land route connecting

Sub-Saharan Africa to the other 2 Eurasian Trade Systems

Who Traded?• Silk Roads – East Asians = producers; Everyone else =

buyers; pastoralists = facilitators• IOMS – South East Asians, Chinese, East Africans,

Indians & Arabs = traders; route connected eventually with the Mediterranean Sea

• Trans-Saharan – Berbers = North African pastoralists and trade facilitators; West Africans = producers of gold, animals skins, ivory; East African = producers of animal skins, ivory

• Europe – at this time was a crappy peninsula hanging off the edge of Asia. NOT VERY INVOLVED

Label the Silk Roads and

IOMS on your map

Label these 6 empires/

kingdoms

Silk Roads

List the main products of the silk roads and draw pics (SILK, PORCELAIN, TEA, HORSES)

Draw Trans-Saharan Route

Label Gold going OUT OF West Africa and Salt coming INTO West Africa on 1 humped camels

Technology and Inventions

Camel saddle – invented in the Mid East and spread through sub-Saharan Africa. Distributed

the load of goods the camel carried.

Caravan crossing Pamir MountainsThe Silk Road was a trade route linking the lands of the Mediterranean with China by way of Mesopotamia, Iran, and Central Asia. Silk Road caravans often traveled during the winter to avoid hot temperatures that added to the hardship of humans and animals. These two-humped camels, in a caravan crossing the Pamir Mountains, have heavy coats of wool that they shed in the spring. The ratio of one camel-puller for every two or three camels indicates how much human labor, exclusive of merchants, pilgrims, and other passengers, was involved in Silk Road trading. (R. Michaud/Woodfin Camp & Associates)

Caravan crossing Pamir Mountains

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Stirrup was invented by

Central Asians.

Also, the bridle & bit.

There were differences in the styles of ships used in different areas of the Indian Ocean basin. The dhow was used by Arab

traders in the Western portion of the trade network.

Chinese Trading Vessel: The JUNK

Cultural Developments

Syncretism

• The blending of different cultural elements that results in a new hybrid of both.

Cultural Diffusion• The movement of ideas, people, religions,

languages, diseases, goods, etc. around the globe

Of what is this building an example?

Bodhisattva at Bamian, lst B.C.Carved into the side of a cliff at Bamiam, this was one of two monumental Buddhist sculptures near the top of a high mountain pass connecting Kabul, Afghanistan, with the northern parts of the country. Carved in the sixth or seventh century, the sculptures were surrounded by cave dwellings of monks and rock sanctuaries, some dating to the first century B.C.E. (Ian Griffiths/Robert Harding Picture Library)

Bodhisattva at Bamian, lst B.C.


Interior Dunhuang CaveThe cave temples of Dunhuang, China, are among the richest of Buddhist art . These three clay statues, which attend the main Buddha in Cave 45, represent the Buddha's disciple Ananda, a bodhisattva, and a heavenly king. ((c) Cultural Relics Data Center of China)

Interior Dunhuang Cave


Musicians playing Iranian instrumentsAs trade became a more important part of Central Asian life, the Iranian-speaking peoples settled increasingly in trading cities and surrounding farm villages. This three-color glazed pottery figurine is one of hundreds of artifacts of Silk Road camels and horses found in northern Chinese tombs from the sixth to ninth centuries. The musicians playing Iranian instruments testify to the migration of Iranian culture across the Silk Road. At the same time, dishes decorated by the Chinese three-color glaze technique were in style in northern Iran. (The National Museum of Chinese History)

Musicians playing Iranian instruments


Musicians Continued

Weaving the web of an Indian Ocean world, Malay sailors set sail from islands in present day Indonesia and made their way in canoes across thousands of miles of open ocean to Madagascar. There they introduced their language and crops, including bananas and coconuts. Also the Malay sailors introduced the xylophone.

In Eurasia, trade intensified as cities grew.

Relief, Sailing Vessel, Indian Ocean, from BorobudurShips like this Indian Ocean sailing vessel, in a rock carving in the Buddhist temple of Borobodur in Java (built between 770 and 825), probably carried colonists from Indonesia to Madagascar. (Ancient Art & Architecture Collection)

Relief, Sailing Vessel, Indian Ocean, from Borobudur


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Ancient Trade Routes Today we will work on our understanding of trade during Time Period I and II. We will look at routes, goods, and primary sources in