Roads
Silk Roads:
- Relay on trading
- China's Silk was in high demand
- Because it was in high demand, it was sacred to Buddhism and Christianity
- Culture's diffused and diseases spread linked pastoral and agricultural peoples as well as the large civilizations on the continent's outer rim symbolize Eurasian Network of Exchange
- Buddhism spread throughout Central and East Asia , owing much to the merchants along Silk Roads
Sea Roads: Exchange across the Indian Ocean
- connected distant peoples all across Eastern Hemisphere
- meditarranean sea...avenue of maritime commerce
- Black Seas
- Atlantic Coast
- Red Sea
- ships could accommodate larger and heavier cargues than camels
- Religion: Hinduism found place in South East Asia...well routed in Champa Kingdom
- christianity
- relying on natural wind
- monsoons
- longer travel
- mass market items
- not luxury items
Sand Roads:
- Meditarranean world used camels, ivory slaves, gold horses, cloth, and salt
- Exchange across the Sahara
- Sahara held deposits of copper and especially salt, while its oasis produced sweet and nutritious dates
- gold above all else
- major international trade route that fostered new relationships among distant people
- new and larger political structures
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