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

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

4. I. Pastoral Peoples / Nomads
Inventions
Example: Paper

5. Pastoral Peoples / Nomads
Military

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

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

9. Pastoral Peoples / Nomads
Nomadic Peoples and History

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

11. Migrations
How did it occur?
2 Possibilities
Impacts of Migration

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

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

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

16. 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

19. 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

21. Trade Routes
Impact
Diffusion
Compared to Silk Road

22. 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.

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

28. II. Ideas, Religions and Technology
Artistic motifs
Hellenistic World

29. Hellenistic Architecture in N. Africa

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