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Mediterranean Sea Lanes
Afro-Eurasian Trade Networks
Trans-Sahara
Caravan Routes
Eurasian Silk Roads
North-South
Eurasian
Mediterranean Sea Lanes
North-South Eurasian
Important cities:
(currently)
Items traded: Cotton, spices, rice, horses, textiles
Items traded: olives, pottery, glass, wool textiles, woodwork, leather
Spread Islam, Greek Orthodox, and Christianity
Linked central Asia to South and Southwest Asia, as well as to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea trade, linked by the major city,
Constantinople
Responsible for spreading Black Death plague from sea ports near the Black Sea
Traded with ships
Contributed to spread
of disease
Indian Ocean Sea
Lanes
Eurasian
Silk Routes
Important Cities:
Items Traded: Silk*, luxury items, grains, fabrics,
Qanat system spread (from Persians) - horizontal tunnels in mountains used for irrigation in dry areas
Mahayana Buddhism (N) developed, later the spread of Islam
Bubonic plague spread across Eurasia
Transported with carts/
wagons
Trans-Sahara Caravan Routes
Items traded: dates, cotton, dyes, glass, gold*, ivory,
salt, animal hides, slaves (mostly luxury items since camels couldn't carry bulk goods
Important cities:
Spread of Islam across Africa
Traded using camels
Indian Ocean
Sea Lanes
Items traded: luxury/bulk items, silk, tea, porcelain, gold, spices*, slaves perfume, rice, bananas, ivory
Important Cities:
Spread of Buddhism to East and Southeast Asia as well as Islam
Use of ships (with monsoon winds),
could take larger loads
Use of the compass