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Medieval Trade Systems
Learning Goal 2: Analyze how the Silk Route and the African gold-salt trade facilitated the spread of ideas and explain how the slave trade in East Africa developed.
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Trade Routes Silk Roads (Eurasia) Sea Roads (Indian Ocean)
Sand Roads (Sahara)
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Sahara Desert Indian Ocean Black Sea Caspian Sea Constantinople
Taklimakan Desert Chang’an Sahara Desert Himalayas Mecca Indian Ocean
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Silk Road Trade China Gun powder Paper Silk Mirrors Porcelain India
Cotton fabric Spices Gems Middle East Dates Nuts Dyes Perfumes Olive oil Buddhism Islam Diseases
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Silk Roads Land-based “Relay Trade” Began as indirect trade routes
Prospered when large and powerful civilizations began to provide security for their merchants and travelers Continued to flourish when the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim Abbasid dynasty and Tang dynasty created a continuous belt of states across Eurasia
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Goods in Transit Usually carried in large camel caravans
Traveled over harsh and dangerous steppes, deserts, and oases Most of the goods were luxury products Silk came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system Used as currency in Central Asia Symbol of high status Associated with the sacred
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Sea Roads - Indian Ocean Trade
Taklimakan Desert Sahara Desert Himalayas Monsoon Nov - Feb Monsoon April - Sept Indian Ocean Slaves Ivory Gold Tortoise Shell Iron Islam spreads to cities along the East African coast & to Southeast Asia
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Sea Roads Sea-based Used the Indian Ocean to connect people all across the Eastern Hemisphere Transportation costs were lower in comparison to the Silk Roads Ships could carry larger and heavier cargo Used the monsoon seasons to their advantage Islam spread to the east coast of Africa & southeast Asia via the Indian Ocean trade complex Trade from the east coast of Africa centered around the trade of slaves. Why did they go to the east coast of Africa for slaves? It is forbidden in Islam to enslave a fellow Muslim
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Sand Roads, the Gold – Salt Trade
Taklimakan Desert Timbuktu Benin Sahara Desert Himalayas Gold from West Africa Salt from within the Sahara Slaves Ivory Nuts Dates Cloth Islam Sub-Saharan West Africa is pulled into the Muslim trade network Indian Ocean
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Sand Roads Land-based Connected North Africa and the Mediterranean world with West Africa Made possible with the introduction of the camel Caravans would include as many as 5,000 camels and would take up to 70 days to reach their destination Sub-Saharan West Africa becomes an important part of the Muslim trade network Crash Course: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
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Culture in Transit Islam and Arabic
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