Transcript Domesticated Pack Animals: Camels

Domesticated Pack Animals:
Camels
Madeline Cannon
WHAP-2nd Period
9/9/11
Camels on Trade Routes
By about 1000 BC
caravans of camels were
bringing precious goods
up the west coast of
Arabia, linking India
with Egypt, Phoenicia
and Mesopotamia.
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In the desert regions of north Africa
and Asia two different species of
camel become the most important
part of trading- the single-humped
Arabian camel which was used in
North Africa, the Middle East and
India and the double-humped
Bactrian camel which were used in
central Asia and Mongolia. They can
produce water, when no water can
be found, from the fat stored in their
humps.
Bactrian Camels
• Bactrian camels from the
classical empires were found
east of the Yellow Rivers
great bend and western to
the deserts of Mongolia and
Northwest China.
• One of the worlds rarest
species of mammals.
• This species is, like other
camels, able to survive in
harsh, desert climates.
• Bactrian camels are now
critically endangered.
Communication on Trade Routes
Entertainment and
literature was
communicated.
The way silk is produced
was also
communicated.
• Types and uses of
medicine were
communicated on
trades routes.
Religion was a major
thing communicated on
Trade Routes.
Exchange on Trade Routes
• Silk, Gold, Ivory, Exotic
plants and animals(like
camels), Gems and
Jewels, Glass, Iron were
exchanged along trade
routes.
• Buddhism was a major
exchange found along
the Silk Road. The Silk
Road is how Buddhism
came to China from
India.
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Images:
<http://www.thehatchreport.com/images/bactrian-camels.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Silk_route.jpg
/400px-Silk_route.jpg
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/trade/trade_routes.jpg