Trade In The 1600s

Through sudden progression and change, trade had not only become known as a source of commerce and become beneficial towards those who participate in it but, it had also become a social and cultural benefactor. Trade itself had become a known concept once someone who is quite curious and adventurous had arrived at another land and voluntarily created diplomatic relations with one another which digresses to successful trades and a new exchange of materials, cultures, and ideas from each individual. Before the 1600s, trade has made a major impact and influence on both government and culture through religion, cultural cohesion, and the upbringing of disease. Firstly, trade had made a major impact on religion. There was in-fact various religions
Back then, Christianity was known as ‘Nestorianism' by the former bishop Constantinople named Nestorius. Under the Sasanian Empire of Persia, he had promoted Sasanian trade and negotiations between other nations to spread Christianity. Overall, in the end, this did occur successfully and first began in Chang'an China and the Western coast of southern India. Roman Palestine did feel a bit intimidated by this growth of Christianity during this time. But the Sasanian Empire of Persia was the last of the Persian empires to spread throughout before the spread of Islam. Which just like other religions, had voluntarily started to spread and cause many others to convert through assimilation within trading communities. Merchants are one of the main reasons as to why the spread of Islam had taken place due to trade. They were, for the most part, bilingual and were capable of trading and communicating with different regions and were considered the source of unity. Even after Central Asia had been conquered by those who are Muslim they still had converted due to beneficial needs and voluntarily assimilation. Those who had not converted would have to pay tolerance taxes, get less or no government funding
In Afro-Eurasia, because of the many trading networks that have begun, these new routes had brought more vulnerability and easier distribution of deadly diseases that no one has ever been exposed to before. As mentioned in the course book article Thucydides, The Plague (430 BCE), there was a sudden outbreak of diseases had that came from Afro-Eurasia and that many of these communities had sadly been not immune (26). This was due to the Virgin soil epidemics in which no one beforehand had previous exposure to especially in Rome and China. Along the many trade routes, the ‘Black Death' which began from China all the way to Europe had killed the majority of the population. At the start, when Mongol soldiers had got to the Genoese trading outpost at the Black Sea between East Asia and the Mediterranean they had unknowingly had smallpox and brought the bubonic plague with them to spread to the local merchants and traders. This had initially led to the influence of the Black Death occurring across the regions. In China, there had already been a decreasing population due to having barely any food or resources but when the disease had occurred it had negatively affected the rest of the Mongol population and the many provinces such as the Bei Zhili and coast of Shandong. This had led to more protection along the trading routes in China and more suspicion and