Blog #7

                                  Commerce and Culture

In this chapter it talks about how the trade impacted society because it altered consumptions and shaped the daily life of the society. It change the working life of people because it encourage them to specialized it a particular product to sell. They sold there products to distant markets. Trade further increased the gap between the wealthy and poor because the elites distinguish themselves by getting goods from a distance. Trade also affected politics because trade was complicated and needed to be controlled by authorities. trade became a vehicle for many things. it caused the spread of religious ideas, technological ideas, germs as well as foreign plants and animals. The biggest exchange of goods across Eurasian were the silk Roads it went from Arabia all the way to china. Agriculture was suitable in the outer Eurasia where it consisted of warm and well watered areas. The silk road was the most used when the powerful states provided protection for their merchants and travelers. Sea roads went through the Arabian, Indian ocean, and the South china sea. One of the biggest port of this network was the Italian city of Venice. Venice had many ships and merchants in both the Mediterranean and the Black seas. The sand roads linked North Africa and the Mediterranean world to West Africa. This enriched the west African civilization by connecting it to the rest of the world.