Impact of Trade

What is trade?

• The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Impact of trade?

• Positives:• 1- new ways of thinking (religion)• 2- new discoveries

(food/governments/natural resources, etc.)• 3- cultures coming together• 4- new cities emerge

Impact of trade?

• Negative:• 1- forced slavery• 2- war over new lands• 3- death (from wars or diseases)

Silk Roads 100 B.C.

• Linked Mesopotamia (Middle East) to China for 1st time.

• Chinese had silk (no other parts of the world had this)

• China began exploring and made way to Mesopotamia.

• Need for silk grows in Mesopotamia and trade routes are made from there to China.

Silk Roads 100 B.C.

• New cities were formed as a result!

West African Trading (1000)• West Africa is rich in gold.

• Europeans rushed down to dominate area and become rich.

• Those who wanted gold traded with SALT!

West African Trading (1000)• SALT was most valuable trading item of this

time.

• Used to flavor and preserve food and keep you alive

• SALT more valuable than GOLD!

African Slave Trade (1500s)

• Africans were used as forced manual labor by the Europeans to work on plantations…FREE LABOR!

• Slaves traded for valuable goods

• Part of Triangular Trade

Triangular Trade (1500s)

• Trade routes from Europe, Africa and Americas

Columbian Exchange (1500-1600s)

• Exchange of goods, plants, foods, animals and diseases from New and Old World

• DISEASES FROM OLD WORLD KILLED AMERICAN NATIVES (no immune system)

Dutch East India Company (1602)

• Dutch led the way in trading • Wealthy Dutch merchants came together and

formed Dutch East India Company

• Was more power than anyone else because they were not governed by a government (like Spain or Portugal)

Dutch East India Company (1602)

• The men were independent and had freedom to make their own rules, build armies, go to war and dominate countries!

• Created new trades as a result!

Crusades• Series of Holy Wars against Christians and

Muslim to regain “holy land” is Israel.

• Christians lost BUT led to more trade and exploration from visiting their land!