Pastoral Peoples, Migrations, and Trade Routes How Do Ideas Spread? Pastoral Peoples, Migrations, and Trade Routes

I. Pastoral Peoples / Nomads Nomads and settled peoples Pastoral people / Nomads Overland Routes Example: Silk ROUTES Provided

I. Pastoral Peoples / Nomads Inventions Example: Paper

Pastoral Peoples / Nomads Military

Pastoral Peoples / Nomads Food Diseases Late Han Dynasty Plague 162 CE Antonine Plague in Rome (165 – 180 CE) Environment

Partner Discussion Question Identify the role that Nomadic/Pastoral people might have played in the development of civilization.

Pastoral Peoples / Nomads Nomadic Peoples and History

Migrations Bantu Migrations (800 BCE – 1000 CE) Bantus Migration

Migrations How did it occur? 2 Possibilities Impacts of Migration

Migrations Polynesian Migrations (1500 BCE to 1000 CE) Maritime migrations Transplanted Foods and Domesticated Animals

Partner Discussion Question Explain how the migration of people helped to spread ideas, religions, goods, culture, etc.

Trade Routes Silk ROUTES – why plural??? China to Mediterranean China to India Other trade routes Specialized Merchants Caravans

Trade Routes Trans-Saharan Trade Routes (800 – 1500) ***Routes existed prior to 800 but this is the period when the trade was most important*** Involved trade of Gold for Salt in sub-Saharan Africa Camels Impact Kingdom of Ghana Mali Empire Songhai Empire

Trade Routes Indian Ocean Trading System (100 – 1600) ***1600 – Introduction of European dominance*** Three distinct regions of trade South China Sea East India / South East Asia West India / East Africa / Persian Gulf

Trade Routes Impact Diffusion Compared to Silk Road

Small Group Discussion Question Which trade route do you think would have been the most difficult to travel upon. Why? Give specific reasons for you answers.

Trade Routes Diffusion of Ideas, Religions, and Technology Buddhism and Islam Central Asia East Asia South East Asia Africa

II. Ideas, Religions and Technology Artistic motifs Hellenistic World

Hellenistic Architecture in N. Africa

Closure Activity How do the three images to the right illustrate cross-cultural interaction?