Before the era of 1200-1450‚ developed countries and religions were changing and cultures molded how empires operated. The Silk Road opened‚ countries were in their infancy‚ and religions like Christianity were developing with the lifetime of Jesus Christ. As time went by‚ traveling for reasons other than religion started‚ and people started developing empires and long-distance trade. During the 12-1400s‚ new empires started trading with people close to them geographically‚ trading across continents
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Between the years of 100 and 1450 trade developed and thrived between different regions of the world. These regions included Africa‚ Europe‚ and Asia‚ and the Americas. Trade was established between these areas using different trade routes. As these areas traded more than just goods were spread. Ideas‚ religion‚ and technology were spread along the trade routes. These cultural aspects were combined with traditional cultures to create new syncretic societies. These trade patterns led to cultural consequences
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More trade routes were made‚ allowing trade to erupt all around the world. Trade became an important force of change and had many effects on society and foreign relations. From 1300-1800 many European countries wanted to expand and make their lands more bountiful with more resources and goods from other places. Countries wanted what other countries had; for example different types of food and spices. This desire for new goods and resources drove countries to explore new lands and trade with other
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Trade in Latin America and India dramatically changed from 1450 to 1750. Around 1450 Latin America was not trading with Europe‚ Asia‚ or Africa. Around 1750 they were receiving slaves from Africa for plantation goods. In 1450‚ India was trading with Asia and east Africa through the Indian Ocean trade. In 1750 India traded a large number of textiles to Western Europe which ended up on Africa’s Western Coast and continued trade with eastern Asia and Africa. The changes Latin American and Indian trade
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White 3rd Hour 11-23-14 Sugar Trade DBQ The rise of absolute monarchies in Western Europe during the 1400’s brought a new economic theory called mercantilism. In mercantilism countries desired a favorable balance of trade‚ in which raw materials were imported from their own colonies‚ manufactured‚ and then exported. After the discovery of the Americas‚ cane sugar was introduced to the West Indies and became a prominent plantation cash crop. From that time sugar trade remained part of the global economy
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The atlantic slave trade between western Europe and the Caribbean happened throughout the time period of 1440 to 1700. During this time Europeans were moving and settling in the Caribbean and they needed laborers to help tend to land. Which created the atlantic slave trade.This vast trade route expanded across the atlantic and left staples on both the Americas and western Europe. All the trading and interaction with new civilizations led to inflation of european currency‚ spread of foreign diseases
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What Drove the Sugar Trade? Sugar was not a very well know product back in the late 1300s. However‚ sugar became a very popular ingredient when Columbus introduce sugar to the West Indies in 1493. After being introduced to other countries‚ sugar spread like wildfire‚ and was wanted everywhere. Of course‚ after sugar became popular‚ there was going to be a rise on merchants selling cane sugar. The sugar trade was driven by the higher demands of people‚ profit‚ and the slave trade. Cane sugar was an
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usage spread. Seeking to trade opium for tea‚ the East India Company induced Indian peasants to raise opium‚ which could then be shipped to China. Enormous quantities of opium made their way to China‚ swelled by the number of merchants involved. By the 1820s‚ the value of opium coming into China exceeded the value of goods exported out. Thus‚ the Chinese had to pay silver in addition to their goods to get opium. Silver shortages began to hurt peasants. To stop the trade‚ the Qing emperor sent a special
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The Silk Road trade and the Trans-Saharan trade have effected the civilizations around them with power and the economy by their highly demanded good and the spread of religion‚ however some of the routes led to the spread of disease. The Silk Roads connected the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire‚ building a massive road system traveling from China all the way to Gaul and Spain. The Trans-Saharan trade routes traveled all down the Red Sea to Zimbabwe. The trade routes symbolized the complex areas around
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Comparing 600-1450 & 1450-1750 Periods of time have always been changing and evolving. The 600 to 1450 era had some similarities to the following era‚ the 1450 to the 1750; though as said before‚ there were the changes also. Many continuities and breaks occurred between both periods. There were the changes in their trading systems‚ the technology‚ their global interactions‚ urbanization‚ social systems‚ and their political government development. These events led to various inventions and some
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