Transcript Ancient Trade Routes

Ancient Trade Routes
Today we will work on our understanding of trade
during Time Period I and II. We will look at
routes, goods, and primary sources in this
presentation. On your blank map, carefully draw
the major routes presented, some of the empires
involved, major goods traded, major inventions’
original locations, and the path of the spread of
ideas, as we discuss
Label each of the 3 routes in a different color.
3 Main Trade Routes
Location
• Silk Roads – land route across Eurasia
• Indian Ocean Maritime System –around the
Indian Ocean
• Trans-Saharan Route – land route connecting
Sub-Saharan Africa to the other 2 Eurasian
Trade Systems
Who Traded?
• Silk Roads – East Asians = producers; Everyone else
= buyers; pastoralists = facilitators
• IOMS – South East Asians, Chinese, East Africans,
Indians & Arabs = traders; route connected
eventually with the Mediterranean Sea
• Trans-Saharan – Berbers = North African pastoralists
and trade facilitators; West Africans = producers of
gold, animals skins, ivory; East African = producers
of animal skins, ivory
• Europe – at this time was a crappy peninsula
hanging off the edge of Asia. NOT VERY INVOLVED
Label the Silk
Roads and
IOMS on your
map
Label these 6
empires/
kingdoms
Silk Roads
List the main products of the silk roads and draw pics
(SILK, PORCELAIN, TEA, HORSES)
Draw TransSaharan Route
Label Gold
going OUT
OF West
Africa and
Salt coming
INTO West
Africa on 1
humped
camels
Technology and Inventions
Camel saddle – invented in the Mid East and
spread through sub-Saharan Africa. Distributed
the load of goods the camel carried.
Caravan crossing Pamir Mountains
Caravan crossing Pamir Mountains
The Silk Road was a trade route linking the lands of the Mediterranean with China by way of Mesopotamia, Iran,
and Central Asia. Silk Road caravans often traveled during the winter to avoid hot temperatures that added to the
hardship of humans and animals. These two-humped camels, in a caravan crossing the Pamir Mountains, have
heavy coats of wool that they shed in the spring. The ratio of one camel-puller for every two or three camels
indicates how much human labor, exclusive of merchants, pilgrims, and other passengers, was involved in Silk Road
trading. (R. Michaud/Woodfin Camp & Associates)
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Stirrup was
invented by
Central
Asians.
Also, the
bridle & bit.
There were differences in the styles of ships used in different
areas of the Indian Ocean basin. The dhow was used by Arab
traders in the Western portion of the trade network.
Chinese Trading Vessel: The JUNK
Cultural Developments
Syncretism
• The blending of different cultural elements
that results in a new hybrid of both.
Cultural Diffusion
• The movement of ideas, people, religions,
languages, diseases, goods, etc. around the
globe
Of what is this building an example?
Bodhisattva at Bamian, lst B.C.
Bodhisattva at Bamian, lst B.C.
Carved into the side of a cliff at
Bamiam, this was one of two
monumental Buddhist sculptures
near the top of a high mountain pass
connecting Kabul, Afghanistan, with
the northern parts of the country.
Carved in the sixth or seventh
century, the sculptures were
surrounded by cave dwellings of
monks and rock sanctuaries, some
dating to the first century B.C.E. (Ian
Griffiths/Robert Harding Picture
Library)
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Interior Dunhuang Cave
Interior Dunhuang Cave
The cave temples of Dunhuang,
China, are among the richest of
Buddhist art . These three clay
statues, which attend the main
Buddha in Cave 45, represent the
Buddha's disciple Ananda, a
bodhisattva, and a heavenly king.
((c) Cultural Relics Data Center of
China)
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Musicians playing Iranian instruments
Musicians playing Iranian
instruments
As trade became a more important
part of Central Asian life, the Iranianspeaking peoples settled
increasingly in trading cities and
surrounding farm villages. This threecolor glazed pottery figurine is one of
hundreds of artifacts of Silk Road
camels and horses found in northern
Chinese tombs from the sixth to ninth
centuries. The musicians playing
Iranian instruments testify to the
migration of Iranian culture across
the Silk Road. At the same time,
dishes decorated by the Chinese
three-color glaze technique were in
style in northern Iran. (The National
Museum of Chinese History)
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Musicians Continued
Weaving the web of an Indian Ocean
world, Malay sailors set sail from islands in
present day Indonesia and made their way
in canoes across thousands of miles of
open ocean to Madagascar. There they
introduced their language and crops,
including bananas and coconuts. Also the
Malay sailors introduced the xylophone.
In Eurasia, trade intensified as cities grew.
Relief, Sailing Vessel, Indian Ocean, from Borobudur
Relief, Sailing Vessel, Indian Ocean, from Borobudur
Ships like this Indian Ocean sailing vessel, in a rock carving in the Buddhist
temple of Borobodur in Java (built between 770 and 825), probably carried
colonists from Indonesia to Madagascar. (Ancient Art & Architecture
Collection)
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