Trading networks
- Muslims traded across the Mediterrean Sea and Indian ocean and across the silk roads of china and india.
- Muslims would set up banks across the empire where merchants could exchange a sakk (check).
- Trade routes have helped to exchange ideas, art, science, and architecture.
Early Islamic Trade Routes
Constanatinople in trade
- It is an important trade center due to its location.
- constantinople was a prime hun in a trading network that at various times extended across nearly all of Eurasia and North America.
- Made tons of money as the epic center of trade between Asia, Europe, Africa.
- The fall of constantinople severly hurt trades in the European region.
Red is land (Silk Road) blue is water routes. Routes after constantinople fell.
Trade routes prior to the fall of Constantinople
The Islamic Empire significantly contributed to globalization during the Islamic Golden Age, when the knowledge, trade and economies from many previously isolated regions and civilizations began integrating through contacts with Muslim (and Jewish Radhanite) explorers and traders. Their trade networks extended from the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Indian Ocean and China Sea in the east. These trade networks helped establish the Islamic Empire as the world’s leading extensive economic power throughout the 7th–13th centuries.