This document discusses several major trade routes between 500-1500 CE, including the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean trade routes, and Trans-Saharan trade routes. It notes that trade along these routes led to the spread of religions, languages, technologies, and diseases across large regions. Specifically, it mentions the diffusion of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, the Bubonic Plague, and smallpox. Additionally, the document outlines some continuities in long-distance trade over this time period, such as the role of cities and ports as trade hubs and the importance of luxury goods in driving commercial exchange.

1. TRADE ROUTES
Land, Sea, & Sand Trade Routes
500-1500 ce

2. SILK ROADS

3. Silk Roads

6. Trade Routes of Africa

7. Using the Strayer textbooks, label the following on your maps.
Draw in the trade routes and label each.
 INDIAN OCEAN ROUTES map p 342
Include the cities: Mogadishu, Mombasa, Kilwa, Calicut, Malacca, Guangzho
 SILK ROADS map on p335
 Include the cities: Tyre, Antioch, Bukhara, Dunhuang, Chang’an
 TRANS-SAHARAN ROUTES map p 350
 Include the cities: Timbuktu, Fez, Tripoli
 For each trade route, look at the goods that were traded along the route in the charts
or text. Choose 5 items that you think were the most important trade goods, and
write them along the trade routes.
 SILK ROADS p 337 INDIAN OCEAN ROUTES p 342 TRANS-SAHARAN
ROUTES p 343

8. Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, &
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
 On your maps, draw in the basic trade
routes and label each.
 Write the names of the main trade goods on
that route.
 SILK ROADS map p335, goods p 337
 INDIAN OCEAN ROUTES map p 342, goods
p 343
 TRANS-SAHARAN ROUTES map p 350,
goods = Gold, Salt, Slaves & page 349

9. Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, &
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
On your maps, ADD:
 SILK ROADS –
 Buddhism FROM South Asia TO Central, SE, & E Asia
 DISEASES (like Bubonic Plague, Measles, &Smallpox)
 Islam FROM the Middle East TO central and E Asia
 INDIAN OCEAN ROUTES—
 Buddhism FROM South Asia TO SE Asia
 Islam FROM the Arabian peninsula TO East Africa & SE
Asia
 TRANS-SAHARAN ROUTES –
 Islam FROM North Africa to West Africa

10. Land, Sea, & Sand
Trade
Continuities and Similarities
500bce to 1400 ce

11. TRADE LED TO:
 Cultural Diffusion
 Christianity
 Buddhism
 Islam
 Languages
 Technologies
 The Spread of
Diseases!
 Bubonic
Plaque,
Smallpox, ????

14. CONTINUITIES and SIMILARITIES
 Trade between ecological zones started the
larger trade systems.
 Trade was often “relay” trade (and not between
“countries or states”)
 IMPORTANCE OF NOMADS in Africa and
Central Asia to carry trade goods.

15. CONTINUITIES and SIMILARITIES
 Cities and ports were trade centers.
 “Trade” in these centers made long term
relationships that led to cultural diffusion.

16. CONTINUITIES and SIMILARITIES
 “Luxury” items made up a significant
portion of the goods traded on the routes-
they fostered the trade.
 Silk textiles, porcelain, cotton textiles, spices,
fragrances, precious metals, ivory, wine