2.1: The Silk Roads

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How did Crusades affect trade?

  • Crusaders exp. trade, brought fabric/spices E, though SR in use

    • CH imports: Ag/Au

    • Eur imports: silk, tea, rhubarb

  • Overland; not arounf Afr. Cape of Hope

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How did the Rise of New Empires affect trade?

  • Collapse of the classic civilizations; 9th cen. the Abbasids revive SR + Ind Ocean trade

    • CH exported paper, compass, gunpowder, porcelain, tea, and silk

      • Rich imported cotton, gems, pomegranite, dates, horses, grapes

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How did the Mongols increase trade? What innovations allowed increased trade?

Unified the SR under one; improved roads/punished bandits

Commerical Practices: Money economies (paper money), credit, banking houses

Changes in Transportation: Caravanserai, Saddle

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Effects of the Silk Road

  • Cities: spread ideas/goods; traders spread Islam/Bud

    • Kashgar: WCH convergence major routes, fertile (wheat/rice/fruit/cotton); market

    • Samarkhand: (S Uzbek) similar

  • Increased proto-industrialization: as more demand luxury goods, more production and less on agri/food, surplus sent out