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130 BCE
The Silk Road
An ancient network of trade routes. Established during the Han Dynasty of China. Many goods throughout Afro-Eurasia traded on this route for many goods, many time this led to great advancements in the respective civilizations -
1 BCE
Impact of Culture
Due to the now ever expanding world many cultures came together and mixed creating a plethora of new languages and identities that has shaped modern culture. Through this many nations prosper as well due to the unity they had found in other nations. -
1 BCE
Impact on Enviroment
The impact of environment was definitely great in terms of how much was built for purely use of trade alone. Ports at the end of ocean near town for trade through ships, entire city's built on the trading route creating a trade based economy. Much of the environment was much traversed due to the increased technology in forms of transportation to travers desert,ocean and mountains. -
700
Trans-Saharan Trade
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Period: 700 to 1500
Trans-Saharan trade
With the availability of transport such camel, Berber-speaking people were able to cross the sahara desert. Soon annual trade caravans followed the routes. Gold was sought from western and central Sudan. The demand for gold was mainly due to need for coinage. Trans-Saharan trade linked the Mediterranean economies that demanded gold. -
800
Indian Ocean Trade
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Period: 800 to 1500
Indian Ocean trade
Connecting the Middle East and Africa to East Asia through the Indian subcontinent. Central hub for the greatest international trade networks. Started to decline when Portugal invaded and ran the trade profit. -
1206
Mongol
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Period: 1206 to 1294
The rise of the Mongol Empire
The largest land empire in history, unified nomadic Mongol and Turkic tribes of historical Mongolia. Through many very successful invasions connected the East with the West with the Pax Mongolica, or Mongol Peace, allowed for trade, technologies, commodities, and ideologies to spread throughout Eurasia.
