Trade project history
Mathewe Matlock
10.2.13
Musa, Arabia 1st period
1.What item(s) was so rare that you could not obtain it? We were unable to obtain cosmetics at any point and roman coins the items were too valuable to get.
2.Was it difficult to obtain some items? Why? Cosmetics were unattainable because they did not exist and the roman coins were too valuable to retrieve, also pepper was hard to get due to many countries wanting it.
3.What items did you obtain that you could trade to merchants in other regions?
Gold, clove, and tortoise shell were items I traded for better items.
4.What would you do differently if you were given more opportunity’s to trade. I would definitely have imposed bigger taxes and attempted to conquer many lands in my travels, along with better bargaining skills if I were able to trade again.
5.What other groups did you trade with? I traded with Aromata, Barygaza, Alexandria, Constantinople, Funan, and Catigara.
6. What human factors helped or hindered your success, e.g. trust among merchants, reliability of ship captains, and/or taxation policies of domestic or foreign governments? Our traffic of trade was limited due to our taxation policy , and people were not as trusting of our countries supplies. We also were able to obtain goods through sly transactions on Musa’s part.
7.What geographic factors made the entrepots and emporia logical sites for trade? Many of the trade regions were located near water making them easy to access by land and water, and many of them were located along major trade routes.
10.2.13
Musa, Arabia 1st period
1.What item(s) was so rare that you could not obtain it? We were unable to obtain cosmetics at any point and roman coins the items were too valuable to get.
2.Was it difficult to obtain some items? Why? Cosmetics were unattainable because they did not exist and the roman coins were too valuable to retrieve, also pepper was hard to get due to many countries wanting it.
3.What items did you obtain that you could trade to merchants in other regions?
Gold, clove, and tortoise shell were items I traded for better items.
4.What would you do differently if you were given more opportunity’s to trade. I would definitely have imposed bigger taxes and attempted to conquer many lands in my travels, along with better bargaining skills if I were able to trade again.
5.What other groups did you trade with? I traded with Aromata, Barygaza, Alexandria, Constantinople, Funan, and Catigara.
6. What human factors helped or hindered your success, e.g. trust among merchants, reliability of ship captains, and/or taxation policies of domestic or foreign governments? Our traffic of trade was limited due to our taxation policy , and people were not as trusting of our countries supplies. We also were able to obtain goods through sly transactions on Musa’s part.
7.What geographic factors made the entrepots and emporia logical sites for trade? Many of the trade regions were located near water making them easy to access by land and water, and many of them were located along major trade routes.