Regional Outline for



Global Trade/Interactions

Consider the Following: Major players, dominant vs. dominated regions, how goods traded, technological innovations, what was traded (disease, ideology, religion, materials), role of merchants, currency, routes, cultural exchange

| |8000 – 600 CE |600 – 1450 CE |1450-1750 CE |1750 – 1914 CE |1914 – Present |

|East Asia |China: silk cloth; roads constructed;|China controlled east trading zone; |China: many navigational |Opium Trade;1st China greatly |Japanese silk exports reduce; rubber |

| |Han-Silk Road trading increased; Iron|traded: silk, porcelain,& paper, |inventions[sternpost rudder, lanteen |benefits from trade; China opens up |exports damaged; China prospered |

| |Age; modernized army (iron weapons, |military tech, Buddhism, Islam, |sails, astrolabe, magnetic compass]; |to Europe; Japan industrializes; |during Global trade; Vietnam: leading|

| |etc.); paper, accurate sun |Christianity; Japan traded: silver; |relied on regional trade; Japan: |Japanese ports open up (1854) b/c |rice exporter; Japan supplied food |

| |dials/calendars, use of metals, |China refocused on Indian Ocean trade|prohibited foreign trade |second Perry expedition. |&raw materials, cars, electronics, |

| |ox-drawn plow. |in 15th century; expeditions by Zheng| |Industrialization |etc; Korea: cheap textiles;, steel, |

| | |He; junks; Mongols; Port of Canton; | | |cars; Taiwan: textiles; Singapore: |

| | | | | |4th largest port. |

|Western Europe |Internal trade mostly; trade |Crusades; Hanseatic League: trade |Trade no longer land based only; |European dominance of the world; |Surrenders export dominance to |

| |&cultural diffusion by boat; wine and|monopoly established; begins to trade|Hanseatic League; European |seized trading networks from |US/Japan (WWI); Common Market; US: |

| |olive products for grain in Greece; |with Islamic world; |exploration and colonization; new |local/regional control. |huge exports; creditor nation; food, |

| |barter system replaced w/ money | |navigational technology utilized for | |wheat, corn, fast food; NAFTA; |

| |system;Hellenism; roman culture | |voyages; British East India Company; | |advertising= diffusion of products |

| |spread; rds. connected to silk rd. | |stole info. From Spanish/portuguese | |and culture; development of economic |

| | | | | |unions; |

|Eastern Europe |not much contact with the outside |Hanseatic League: trade monopoly |Russia: forced to establish agencies |Exported grain to Europe for western |Still agricultural & exports to W. |

| |world; traded very little |established; Mongol Empires; |in Moscow/St. Pete; traded primarily |machinery; # 4 in steel production; |Europe; COMECON; industrialization; |

| | |crossroads of Europe and Asia; didn’t|with nomads of central asia; Ottoman | |cut off from world trade because |

| | |have much interest in Western goods; |Empire: European traders formed | |refusal to join “Bretton Woods |

| | | |colonies with Constantinople; | |System”; |

| | | |dismissed western tech and trade. | | |

|South Asia |Indian Ocean Trade; Mauryans: |Indian kingdoms controlled Middle |India encouraged to trade with West |Exclusive trade over India with |SW Asia joins in int’l drug trade; |

| |promoted trade; rds. connected w/ |trading zone; ports in India; trades:|but was more preoccupied with |British East India Company; increase |cheap textiles; exports clothing; |

| |Silk Rd.; Buddhist missionaries sent |gems, elephants, salt, cotton cloth &|imperial expansion. |of urbanization due to British |became world’s largest democracy |

| |out; Guptas: “Arabic” # system, |cinnamon | |colonialism; roads and canals built | |

| |inoculation of smallpox, | | |in; raw materials exported to | |

| |sterilization during surgery, | | |Britain, finished materials imported | |

| |astronomy. | | |back to India; | |

|Latin America |Didn’t trade much yet. |Lots of roads; didn’t really trade. |Exploration of Portugal; Spain headed|LA trade increased significantly; |Great Depression kills export |

| | | |West-Columbus’s voyage; Reconquista |sugar, cotton, cacao plantations, |economy; US=Cuba’s leading trade |

| | | |delayed Spanish exploration; Vasco de|beef exports-refrigerated boxcars; |partner ‘til 1959; Columbia: int’l |

| | | |Gama, Dias, Ferdinand Magellan; |used for natural resources. |drug exchange; Brazil: exotic woods; |

| | | |haciendas formed; | |Mexico: oil; Venezuela: member of |

| | | | | |OPEC |

|Middle East |Great traders in Mesopotamia; traded |Arabs dominated trade; controlled |Colonies formed here by western |Trade with Islamic world decreased; | Oil; westernization; ASEAN ; joins |

| |with Egypt some; Silk Road Trade; |western trading zone; traded: |Europe. Traded with West but more |dependent on European imports; |int’l drug trade; migration; |

| |trans-Saharan trade; adopted Sumerian|textiles, carpets, glass & Arabian |interested in expanding empire; |discovery of oil gains lots of money.| |

| |beliefs; |horses; Crusades; Trans-Saharan trade| | | |

| | |routes; Islam spread; Mongols; | | | |

|Africa |East Africa linked to Southern China |Trans-Saharan trade routes; salt, |Internal Africa not explored, |Trans-Atlantic slave trade ended but |After WWI no money to purchase |

| |through Indian Ocean Trade; |gold, honey, slaves, ivory (exports);|Europeans too scared. |slavery still continued illegally; |industrial goods, S. African miners |

| |Trans-Saharan Trade: use of |copper, horses, textiles, figs, iron | |coastal regions important for limited|prosper from gold mines; after WWII |

| |camel/camel saddle; exchange of salt |(imports); | |trade: stopping points for merchant |rely on sales of cash crops/minerals;|

| |and palm oil; N. Africa supplied Rome| | |ships; center for slave trade; |Niger: oil producer, member of OPEC; |

| |with olives, wheat, and wild animals;| | |established outposts, naval bases and|exports native arts |

| |Egyptian culture spread. | | |small colonies; diamond deposits; | |

| | | | |exported cotton to Britain; | |

|Major Themes/Turning Points |Silk Road; Iron Age |Silk Road connected everyone; east to|Silk Road connected everyone; east to|End of trans-Atlantic slave trade; |WWI & WWII; Great Depression; |

| | |west (1200-1600); Crusades; Mongols; |west (1200-1600); Renaissance; |industrial revolution; European |globalization; |

| | |Indian Ocean trade; Trans-Saharan |gunpowder; European colonization and |dominance of world; communication and| |

| | |trade; Marco Polo; Global Trade |exploration; Commercial Revolution; |transportation revolution. | |

| | |Network; Rise of Islam |Atlantic Slave Trade; ships used for | | |

| | | |trade; Crusades | | |

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