Growth of trade Flashcards
What elements of worldview did the Silk Road effect?
Geography
Knowledge
Economy
The Silk Road
Interconnected series of ancient trade routes from China to the Mediterranean Sea
Extended over 8 000km
How did the Silk Road start?
The Roman empire which is now the Middle East had welcomed exotic goods from China and Japan
Goods such as silk, glassware, pepper, spices, most are extremely rare
Also shared ideas such as religion, science, technology, philosophy and math
The goods would move from trader to trader by foot or by caravan along the trade network
The demand for these goods was so high that it increased the contact between these societies despite the enormous distances
Why was it dangerous to travel along the whole of the Silk Road?
White hot sand dunes
Mountains
Winds
Bandits
Venomous snakes
Water was scarce
Extremely hot in the day
Very cold at night
What were Roman explorers looking for when they travelled to China?
They were looking for the “Silk People”
What was the impact of the Silk Road on Geography?
Geography would impact the resources that the people traded and what they had available to them
People traded goods that weren’t available in other areas using the goods they had a lot of
Transportation was very slow and dangerous leading europeans through ocean routes to Asia
What was the impact the Silk Road had on Knowledge?
Merchants along the Silk Road transferred knowledge as well as goods
What was the impact the Silk Road had on the economy?
The demand for goods such as silk and spices from Asia increased dramatically in Europe
What was the crusades?
A series of military conflicts fought between the christian’s and muslims based on religious beliefs
Fought between 1095 to 1291 CE
What were they fighting over in the crusades?
They were fighting over the Holy Land otherwise known as Palestine
The Holy Land is an area that contains sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims
They all have religious connection to Palestine because the religions all come out of the same religious history
The ownership fo this land is still fought over today
Why did the Christians believe that the Holy land should be in their hands?
They believed this because everyone else thought that their religion is the correct one
The land was under christian rule starting in 1st century CE
Later taken over by the Muslim Turks in the middle of the 7th century
What were the goals of the Crusades?
- Recapturing Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land from muslim rule
- Stopping the expansion of Turkish Muslims into the Middle East
How did the crusades start?
The first crusade started when Pope Urban ll isssued a proclamation after the council of Clermont
The proclamation told the christian’s to go forget for control of the Holy Land
Christian and Muslim warriors joined the fight as a one way opportunity to heaven
The first crusade created a christian kingdom in the Holy Land that lasted about 100 years until 1187 when the muslims recaptured jerusalem
The christian’s launched 3 more crusades over the next hundred years in an effort to claim the land for their religion
What were the two unintentional results of the crusades?
- Contact with the muslims
In general Muslim countries were more advanced that christian ones at the time
Christian’s gained new ideas in medicine, astronomy, philosophy, math and literature
- Trade with the muslims
Crusaders brought back many goods to Europe (oil, spices, etc.)
This led to increased demand of products from the Middle East which increased the trade
How did the crusades impact beliefs?
Christian’s Muslims and Jews all claimed the Holy Land as their own due to shared religious history and important religious sites in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas
