Chapter 7: Commerce and Culture, 500–1500 |
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I. |
Silk Roads:
Exchange across
Eurasia |
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A. |
The Growth of the
Silk Roads |
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1. |
Inner and Outer
Eurasia |
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2. |
Pastoral people in motion |
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3. |
Indirect connections between
empires |
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B. |
Goods in transit |
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1. |
Luxury goods such as silk |
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2. |
Women as producers and
consumers |
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3. |
China
and other centers of silk
production |
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C. |
Cultures in
Transit |
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1. |
Buddhism on the road |
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2. |
New forms of Buddhism:
Mahayana |
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D. |
Disease in
Transit |
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1. |
Smallpox and measles in Han
and
Rome |
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2. |
Bubonic plague in
Byzantium and elsewhere |
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3. |
Mongols and the Black Death |
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II. |
Sea Roads: Exchange across the
Indian
Ocean |
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A. |
Weaving the Web
of an
Indian Ocean World |
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1. |
Malay sailors in
East Africa |
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2. |
New technologies |
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3. |
India
as the fulcrum |
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4. |
Impact of
China |
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5. |
Islam and trade |
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B. |
Sea Roads as a
Catalyst for Change:
Southeast Asia |
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1. |
Srivijaya, 670–1075 |
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2. |
Khmer
kingdom of
Angkor,
800–1300 |
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3. |
Borobudur and
Angkor Wat |
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4. |
“Indianization” |
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C. |
Sea Roads as a
Catalyst for Change:
East Africa |
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1. |
Swahili |
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2. |
Rise of Islamic trade |
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3. |
Lamu,
Mombasa, Kilwa, and Sofala |
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4. |
Cultural fusions |
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5. |
Muslim Africans |
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6. |
Great
Zimbabwe |