1. Ch.7 Commerce and Culture

3.  Growth  Inner and outer Eurasia—Inner pastoral groups on steppes  Pastoral people traded products of forest and steppes for agricultural products and manufactured goods of civilizations  Goods  Luxury=silk, light-weight items, spices  Women were producers and consumers  China had monopoly for a long time, then Byzantium and other places

4.  Cultures  Buddhism: spread, Mahayana, monasteries  Disease  Smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, Black Death

6.  The Indian Ocean World  New technology  India is the fulcrum  Islam

8.  Catalyst for Change: SE Asia  Srivijaya  Funan  Angkor  Indianization?  Government—god-kings  Karma  Art, architecture, language and literature  BUT--- matrilineal lines, women had fewer restrictions

11.  Catalyst for Change: East Africa  Swahili  Transformed into urban city-states  Islam  Great Zimbabwe  Gold trade  Stone buildings

13.  West Africa  Environment created a variety of goods=weapons, tools, books, clothes, glassware, copper, salt, date palms, millet, sorghum, yam and kola nuts  Sudan=land of the blacks  Urban centers along the Niger

14.  Gold, Salt and Slaves in West Africa  Camels!!!  Empires: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay  Women played important roles laborers and craft makers  Slave trading  Cities were very wealthy and centers of trade, manufacturing, culture, education, and religion.

16.  The dense rain forests of Panama were an obstacle  North/South not East/West  Regional trade  Mesoamerica=Mayan and Aztec trade, pochteca (traders hired by state)  Andes=Inca, state-sponsored  Why no connection between Maya and Inca?