Trade routes assignment
Daniel Schollie
Abbasid dynasty circa 786 – 1194 CE(Map)
Abbasid Dynasty
• Used Baghdad, Cairo and Cordoba to
stimulate trade and industry throughout the
Islamic world
• Created paper using Chinese methods
• Created concept of Cheque (American
Spelling, Originally Check)
• Bazaars held goods from around the world for
sale
• Increased demand for materials within the
Islamic empire, such as iron, leather and glass
Trans Saharan Trade
• Outsiders rarely traded within the Sahara in
early years
• However, Locals used these North-West trade
routes to sustain their cultures
• Caravans of Islamic traders
• Berbers
• TRADED: GOLD, SALT, IVORY, POTTERY, SPICES,
IRON GOODS, CAMELS, LINENS
Saharan trade routes circa 1400, with the modern territory of Niger highlighted
Darb el-Arbain Trade Route
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Kharga and Asyut
Old Egyptian Kingdom
Romans
“Forty day road”
EXCHANGED: GOLD, IVORY, SPICES,
WHEAT, ANIMALS,
PLANTS
Trade Routes Focused around
Carthage
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Garamantes ---- c.1500 BCE
Phoenecia------- c. 400 BCE
Carthage (founded c. 800 BCE)
Middle men conducted trade
IMPORTED: SALT, CLOTH, BEADS, METAL
GOODS
• EXPORTED: GOLD (West African), IVORY,
SLAVES
Silk Road Trade (map slide 8)
• China Export: China, porcelain, Bronze
ornaments, medicines, Spices,
Perfumes, Chinese Inventions,
Paper, Tea, Rice
• China Import: Gold, Silver, Precious stones,
Glass items, Hides, Wool,
hunting dogs, Ivory, Turtle
shells, Ceramics, Iron items,
Mirrors
Indian Ocean
• Gold, Ivory, Iron were all imported
• Exported cotton, silk and porcelain
• High demand for these exports due to low
supply
• Cities were easy to reach due to location and
favourable winds and ocean currents
• Cargo easy to load and unload at cities
AREAS OF MAJOR TRADE
Swahili Coast
• Connected East, Central and South Africa to
Indian/Pacific trade routes
• Trade connected as far as Great Zimbabwe
and modern day Democratic Republic of
Congo
• Slaves, Ivory major income providers
• Currency, Pottery, Beads, Spices all
imported
Great Zimbabwe
• Bantu people founded Great Zimbabwe on
their migration southward
• Trade network linked with China and Kilwa
• Gold, Ivory and Cattle were all believed to
have been exported from Great Zimbabwe
• Pottery, currency (from Arabia), glass beads all
excavated suggesting these goods were
imported
Timbuktu
• Linked West Africa with Berbers, Arab and
Jewish traders
• Knowledge
• On Niger River
• Salt, Gold exported
• Extremely Wealthy
• Important Religious/Education site
Viking Trade
• Traded in Constantinople silks and spices for
slaves (usually Russian), Amber (from
Baltic’s), furs, skins and walrus tusk ivory
(from Iceland/Greenland/Norway etc.)
• Founded Scandinavian trading cities of
Birka, Ribe, Hedeby, and Skiringskal
• Used Kiev (Ukraine) to open Russian and
Byzantine trading goods to Western Europe
• Stimulated large economic growth
Mediterranean Sea
• Provided a way of trade, Colonization and war
• Connected Ancient Greeks, Roman, Egyptians,
Carthaginians and more
• Later connected to Indian Ocean
• Allowed for cultural exchange
• Critical to development of Nations
Berenike
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eastern side of Egypt
ideal position
India shipped goods here
Redistributed amongst people (particularly
Romans around 100 BCE)
Dates Of Major Trading Centers
• c. 200 BCE – 1300 CE Silk Road routes forming
• c. 750 – 1258 CE Islamic Abbasid Dynasty
• c. 1000 CE Crusaders acquire goods from
middle East, become involved in world trade
• c. 790 – 1070 CE Vikings become international
traders, opening Russia to west trading
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