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Mediterranean Sea Trade 3500BCE
Same of the most ancient civilizations flourished around the mediterranean, It was opened as a highway for commerce by trading from Phoenicia. -
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Silk Roads 206BCE
Silk Road became the trade routes between China and the West. -
May 8, 602
Travels of Xuanzang
Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, known for travels to India -
May 8, 620
Trans-Saharan Gold/Salt Trade
From the seventh to the eleventh century, trans-Saharan trade linked the Mediterranean economies that demanded gold—and could supply salt—to the sub-Saharan economies, where gold was abundant. -
May 8, 620
Caravanserai
A caravanserai was a road side inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey. Caravanserai supported the flow of commerce, information, and people across the network of trade routes coering Asia, Africa in the North, SE Europe esp. along the Silk Road. -
May 8, 620
Camel Saddle
Camel Saddles assisted travelers/merchants traveling on the trans-saharan trade route -
May 8, 1000
Polynesian Migrations
Polynesians migrated through most of pacific in sailing canoes, ultimately forming a triangle from New Zealand, Easter Island to Hawaiian Archipelago -
May 8, 1000
Astrolabe
Locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, determining local time given local latitude and vice-versa, surveying, triangulation, and to cast horoscopes. -
May 8, 1095
The Crusades
A series of Holy Wars launched by the Christian States of Europe against the Moslems. Jerusalem was taken by Turks and 3000 Christians were massacared starting a chain of events which contributed o the cause of the crusades. -
May 8, 1200
Bantu Migrations
Bantu-Speaking herders in the north and south mixed with older populations. Others were moving to African coast, creating coastal ports. -
May 8, 1241
Hanseatic League
A commercial and defensive confederation of merchants guilds and their market towns that dominated trade along the coast of northern Europe. Created to protected economic interests, diplomatic privledges along trade routes that merchants visited. -
May 8, 1271
Travels of Marco Polo
Traveled along the Silk Road. He excelled through his determination, his writing and his influence. Became confident of Kublai Khan, traveled along whole of China and returned to tell the tale. -
May 8, 1300
Rise of Italian City-States
An elaborate pattern of communal gov't began to evolve under the leadership of a burnger class growth, wealthy in the trade, banking and such industries as woolen textiles. Many cities became powerful, independent city-states. -
May 8, 1325
Travels of Ibn Battuta
Visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-muslim lands. Known for his extensive traels, acocounts of which were published in the Rihla. -
May 8, 1348
Black Plague
The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half of the people of Western Europe. -
May 8, 1400
Renaissance Paint Art
Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of the Renaissance period, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music and science. -
May 8, 1547
Cervantes
A Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered to be the first modern European novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes") -
May 8, 1564
Shakespeare
English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays -
Porcelain
Strong vitreous, translucent ceramic material, and glazed -
Credit/Checks/Flying Money
Letters of credit made long distance trade easier -
Viking Raids
The vikings consisted of Danes, Swedes, or Norwegians that lived along the coasts of Scandinavia. They mainly survived by farming, fishing, and piracy. Vikings knew they had to rise above everyone else by combat and had nothing to lose by raiding and pillaging villages. -
Indian Ocean Trade
Key factor in East West exchange, dynamic zone of trade for countries on the coast of Indian Ocean -
Paper Money
Made by Tang Dynasty because devalued coins were becoming too heavy to carry