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Page 1: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Impact of Trade

Page 2: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

What is trade?

• The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Page 3: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Impact of trade?

• Positives:• 1- new ways of thinking (religion)• 2- new discoveries

(food/governments/natural resources, etc.)• 3- cultures coming together• 4- new cities emerge

Page 4: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Impact of trade?

• Negative:• 1- forced slavery• 2- war over new lands• 3- death (from wars or diseases)

Page 5: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Silk Roads 100 B.C.

• Linked Mesopotamia (Middle East) to China for 1st time.

• Chinese had silk (no other parts of the world had this)

• China began exploring and made way to Mesopotamia.

• Need for silk grows in Mesopotamia and trade routes are made from there to China.

Page 6: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Silk Roads 100 B.C.

• New cities were formed as a result!

Page 7: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

West African Trading (1000)• West Africa is rich in gold.

• Europeans rushed down to dominate area and become rich.

• Those who wanted gold traded with SALT!

Page 8: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

West African Trading (1000)• SALT was most valuable trading item of this

time.

• Used to flavor and preserve food and keep you alive

• SALT more valuable than GOLD!

Page 9: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

African Slave Trade (1500s)

• Africans were used as forced manual labor by the Europeans to work on plantations…FREE LABOR!

• Slaves traded for valuable goods

• Part of Triangular Trade

Page 10: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Triangular Trade (1500s)

• Trade routes from Europe, Africa and Americas

Page 11: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Columbian Exchange (1500-1600s)

• Exchange of goods, plants, foods, animals and diseases from New and Old World

• DISEASES FROM OLD WORLD KILLED AMERICAN NATIVES (no immune system)

Page 12: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Dutch East India Company (1602)

• Dutch led the way in trading • Wealthy Dutch merchants came together and

formed Dutch East India Company

• Was more power than anyone else because they were not governed by a government (like Spain or Portugal)

Page 13: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Dutch East India Company (1602)

• The men were independent and had freedom to make their own rules, build armies, go to war and dominate countries!

• Created new trades as a result!

Page 14: Impact of Trade. What is trade? The exchanging of goods, ideas, ways of life and values between two different cultures.

Crusades• Series of Holy Wars against Christians and

Muslim to regain “holy land” is Israel.

• Christians lost BUT led to more trade and exploration from visiting their land!


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