1. Importance of Trade States & Empires & Major Trade Routes

2. 1.What do you see in this image? 2.Where might this be? 3.Write a three-word caption to describe what in general is happening in this scene. Ruins are on Hatay (Turkey) - Halab (Syria) highway

3. Aztec Maya Inca Songhai Mughal Spain Ottoman England France Persia Russia China

4. -- 1427 – 1519a.d. -- 2000b.c. – 900a.d. -- 1438 – 1533a.d.

5. Traditional Trade Patterns Linking Europe with Asia and Africa Silk Road- across Asia to the Mediterranean basis

6. Silk roads across Asia to the Mediterranean basin

7. Technological and scientific advancements exchanged across the Silk roads

8. Silk Road ► Passage way for Chinese Silk, Jade, Porcelain, Gunpowder, and Paper  China received gold, glassware, wool and linen fabrics from the Middle East and Europe ► In use since 300 A.D. runs from Pacific Coast of China to the Mediterranean Sea (East meets West)

9. Maritime routes across the Indian Ocean

10. Maritime Routes Across the Indian Ocean Arabs and Persians- traded Indian cloth, Ceramics and Chinese Porcelain for African Gold, Ivory, and Salt

11. Technological and scientific advancements exchanged across the Indian Ocean

12. Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa

13. Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa and Egypt Very dangerous trade route cutting through North Africa’s Sahara Dessert Merchants went by foot or Caravan for items such as salt, slaves, gold, and ivory

14. Technological and scientific advancements exchanged along the Trans-Saharan Routes

15. Northern European Links with the Black Sea A link for Europeans w/ the Silk Road

16. Western European Sea and River Trade Trade was easily allowed by land and water between European Countries, but they tended to trade good that they had gotten in the East

17. Western European sea and river trade

18. Technological and scientific advancements exchanged across the Black Sea

19. Technological and scientific advancements exchanged along European rivers

20. South China Sea and lands of Southeast Asia

21. South China Sea and Southeast Asia Trade Routes Inter trade between one another for spices and items not locally produced

22. Technological and scientific advancements exchanged from the South China Sea

23. Importance of Trading Patterns  Exchange of Products, Ideas, and Advancements ► Products  Amber, Silk, spices, textiles, horses, gunpowder, salt, gold, porcelain, sugar, coffee and ivory ► Ideas  Religions ► Islam from Arabian Peninsula to North Africa and Northern India ► Judaism- Palestine to Europe ► Christianity- Palestine, Africa, Europe and eventually North and South America ► Hinduism- India ► Buddhism- South East Asia- China, Japan, and Korea ► Advancements  China- Printing, Paper, Paper money, Compass, Silk, and Porcelain  India and Middle East- watermills, windmills, lateen sail, textiles and numeral system  Scientific from All- Medicine, astronomy, and mathematics