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Commerce and Culture500-1500 AP World History Notes Chapter 8 Why Trade? Different ecological zones = natural uneven distribution of goods and resources Early monopolization of certain goods Silk in China Spices in Southeast Asia I want what you have! Do you want what I have? Let’s trade! Trade: 500-1500 Long-distance trade developed This trade shaped culture and society Trade = mostly indirect Chain of separate transactions Goods traveled father than merchants Significance of Trade: Economic Altered consumption Ex: West Africans now able to get salt to flavor and preserve their food Changed the day-to-day lives of individuals Ex: trade specialization -- led to less self-sufficiency and more dependency Significance of Trade:Social Traders became their own social group Sometimes viewed suspiciously -- why are they making money without making the goods? Trade became a means of social mobility Money = land = power and status Trade used by elite groups to distinguish themselves from commoners Only they could afford luxury goods from far away like silk or ivory Significance of Trade:Political Controlling and taxing trade motivated the creation of states and kingdoms Wealth from trade sustained these states and kingdoms and facilitated their growth What Else Was “Traded”? Religious ideas Technological innovations Disease-bearing germs Plants and animals The Silk Roads The Silk Roads: Growth Eurasia = often divided into inner and outer zones with different ecologies Outer Eurasia = relatively warm and well-watered China, India, Middle East, Mediterranean Inner Eurasia = harsher, drier climate Eastern Russia, Central Asia The Silk Roads: Growth Result = steppe products traded for agricultural products and manufactured goods from inner Eurasia Birth of the Silk Roads trade network Hides, furs, livestock, wool, amber, horses, saddles The Silk Roads: Growth Construction of classical civilizations and empires added major players to this trade network Persian Empire, Greek E