1. Impact of Trade

2. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

3. Impact of trade? Positives: 1- new ways of thinking (religion) 2- new discoveries (food/governments/natural resources, etc.) 3- cultures coming together 4- new cities emerge

4. Impact of trade? Negative: 1- forced slavery 2- war over new lands 3- death (from wars or diseases)

5. Silk Roads 100 B.C. Linked Mesopotamia (Middle East) to China for 1 st time. Chinese had silk (no other parts of the world had this) China began exploring and made way to Mesopotamia. Need for silk grows in Mesopotamia and trade routes are made from there to China.

6. Silk Roads 100 B.C. New cities were formed as a result!

7. West African Trading (1000) West Africa is rich in gold. Europeans rushed down to dominate area and become rich. Those who wanted gold traded with SALT!

8. West African Trading (1000) SALT was most valuable trading item of this time. Used to flavor and preserve food and keep you alive SALT more valuable than GOLD!

9. African Slave Trade (1500s) Africans were used as forced manual labor by the Europeans to work on plantations…FREE LABOR! Slaves traded for valuable goods Part of Triangular Trade

10. Triangular Trade (1500s) Trade routes from Europe, Africa and Americas

11. Columbian Exchange (1500-1600s) Exchange of goods, plants, foods, animals and diseases from New and Old World DISEASES FROM OLD WORLD KILLED AMERICAN NATIVES (no immune system)

12. Dutch East India Company (1602) Dutch led the way in trading Wealthy Dutch merchants came together and formed Dutch East India Company Was more power than anyone else because they were not governed by a government (like Spain or Portugal)

13. Dutch East India Company (1602) The men were independent and had freedom to make their own rules, build armies, go to war and dominate countries! Created new trades as a result!

14. Crusades Series of Holy Wars against Christians and Muslim to regain “holy land” is Israel. Christians lost BUT led to more trade and exploration from visiting their land!