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Study Guide
1. What are the indirect fctors spread by trade?
Many indirect factors were spread by trade. Trade became the vehicle for the spread of religious ideas, technological innovations, disease-bearing germs, and plants and animals to regions far from there places of origin. Trade also shaped a lot of societies, whether it was politically, structurally, or economically. Economically it often altered consumption, for example enabling West Africans to import scarce salt, necessary for human diets and useful for seasoning and perserving food, from distant mines in the Sahara in exchange for the gld of their region. Trade affected day to day life allowing peasants to give up there jobs for much better paying jobs that produced goods much more valuable on the Silk Road. Trade also shaped the structures of these societies. Traders often became a distinct social group, viewed by suspicion of others because of there impusle to accumalate wealth without actually producing anything themselves. In some societies such as China, trade became a social mobility. Merchants were able to purchase landed estates and establish themselves within the gentry of the class. Political life was also sometimes transformed by trade, the wealth available from controlling and taxing trade motivated the creation of states in various parts of the world sustained those states once they had been constructed. But trade also posed a question to governments everywhere, should trade be left in private hands (Aztec Empire) or should it be controlled by the state (Inca Empire)? Buddhism made its way from India to Central and East Asia, and Islam crossed the Sahara into the West Africa. So did the pathogens that devastated much of Eurasia during the Black Death. These immense cultural and biological transformations were among the most significanct outcomes of the increasingly dense networkds of long-distance commerce during the era of third-wave civilization.
2. What are the pros and cons of
1. What are the indirect fctors spread by trade?
Many indirect factors were spread by trade. Trade became the vehicle for the spread of religious ideas, technological innovations, disease-bearing germs, and plants and animals to regions far from there places of origin. Trade also shaped a lot of societies, whether it was politically, structurally, or economically. Economically it often altered consumption, for example enabling West Africans to import scarce salt, necessary for human diets and useful for seasoning and perserving food, from distant mines in the Sahara in exchange for the gld of their region. Trade affected day to day life allowing peasants to give up there jobs for much better paying jobs that produced goods much more valuable on the Silk Road. Trade also shaped the structures of these societies. Traders often became a distinct social group, viewed by suspicion of others because of there impusle to accumalate wealth without actually producing anything themselves. In some societies such as China, trade became a social mobility. Merchants were able to purchase landed estates and establish themselves within the gentry of the class. Political life was also sometimes transformed by trade, the wealth available from controlling and taxing trade motivated the creation of states in various parts of the world sustained those states once they had been constructed. But trade also posed a question to governments everywhere, should trade be left in private hands (Aztec Empire) or should it be controlled by the state (Inca Empire)? Buddhism made its way from India to Central and East Asia, and Islam crossed the Sahara into the West Africa. So did the pathogens that devastated much of Eurasia during the Black Death. These immense cultural and biological transformations were among the most significanct outcomes of the increasingly dense networkds of long-distance commerce during the era of third-wave civilization.
2. What are the pros and cons of