Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Blog Post #8
Christianity spread by the wholly unforeseen birth of yet another monotheistic faith in the middle East, its rapid spread across much of the AfroEurasian world, the simultaneous creation of a large and powerful Arab Empire, the emergence of a cosmopolitan and transcontinental Islamic civilizations.
Blog Post #7
Silk Roads:
Silk road trading networks prospered most when large and powerful states provided security for merchants and travelers. Silk road trade flourished again during the seventh and eighth centuries
Sea Roads:
Grew out of the vast environmental and cultural diversities of the region. Transportation costs were lower on the Sea Roads than on the Silk Roads because ships could accommodate larger and heavier cargoes than camels. This meant that the Sea Roads could eventually carry more bulk goods and products destined for a mass market.
Sand Roads: across the vast reaches of he Sahara
Commercial networks had a transforming impact, stimulating and enriching West Africa civilization and connecting it to larger patterns of world history during the third wave era.
Silk road trading networks prospered most when large and powerful states provided security for merchants and travelers. Silk road trade flourished again during the seventh and eighth centuries
Sea Roads:
Grew out of the vast environmental and cultural diversities of the region. Transportation costs were lower on the Sea Roads than on the Silk Roads because ships could accommodate larger and heavier cargoes than camels. This meant that the Sea Roads could eventually carry more bulk goods and products destined for a mass market.
Sand Roads: across the vast reaches of he Sahara
Commercial networks had a transforming impact, stimulating and enriching West Africa civilization and connecting it to larger patterns of world history during the third wave era.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Blog post #6
Africa hosted numerous separate societies, cultures, and civilizations with vast differences among them as well as some interaction between them.
small regions of Mediterranean climate in the northern and southern extremes, large deserts, even larger regions of savanna grasslands, tropical rain forest in the continent's center, highlands and mountains in eastern Africa all of these features, combined with the continent's enormous size, ensured endless variation among Africa's many peoples.
The Niger river was a main resource and source overall for water.
Africa south of the equator, agricultural Bantu-speaking peoples also created a wide variety of quite distinct societies and cultures.
small regions of Mediterranean climate in the northern and southern extremes, large deserts, even larger regions of savanna grasslands, tropical rain forest in the continent's center, highlands and mountains in eastern Africa all of these features, combined with the continent's enormous size, ensured endless variation among Africa's many peoples.
The Niger river was a main resource and source overall for water.
Africa south of the equator, agricultural Bantu-speaking peoples also created a wide variety of quite distinct societies and cultures.
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