Throughout history, trade has intentionally transformed civilizations b y spreading religions and cultures, and by introducing new products and ideas; trade has intentionally transformed civilizations by transmitting diseases to new place sees and reducing the uniqueness of individual cultures. The spread of religion was heavily influenced by trade, as supported by documents 2 and 3.
Document 2 shows us that as a result of trade, Islam spree ad from its original location in Arabia to as far as China in the east In addition, Buddha SMS and Christianity were also spread by the silk road. Document 3 displays that trade RSI who came to the Swahili Coast spread their Islamic orientation and Arabic and India influences into Africans culture, as displayed by the combination of Swahili and there languages. Most people who are Swahili today also trace their roots back to A Arab traders, but still enjoy African music and food.
This would all never have been possible if it weren’t for the trade networks of the Swahili Coast or the Silk Roads. Aside from the spread of religion, trade also helped new ideas and products spread from one civilization to another. As shown by Documents 1,4,5 and 6, many different products and ideas were spread because of trade. In Document 1 , the Mediterranean trade map in the document shows major products like gold an d wine being traded between Greek and Phoenician colonies.
Document 4 shows that t as the supplies of goods increased in Europe, trade also began to increase, and town s would hold fairs every year for the trading of these goods. Then, as trade increased, new methods of using cash and loans were developed. Banks that practiced these methods were established by Christians as a part of the Commercial Revolute on, which eventually spread through all of the Christian states.
Finally, Documents 5 and 6 further show how trade introduced prod cuts from different civilizations hundreds of miles away to each other. The first of these two documents shows how Marco polo brought HTH new ideas from China back home to Europe, such as the idea of using paper moon y and coal heating. The Columbian Exchange in Document 6 explains how products from the New World were brought to the Old World to create new foods, some of these e products including chocolate, tomato, and potatoes.
Not all parts of trade were beneficial, though trade helped spread new ideas a products throughout the world, trade also spread deadly diseases as well as a loss of individualism that each civilization had. With the Columbian exchange in Dock meet 6, deadly illnesses spread from the Old World to the New World and killed Off m NY indigenous people in the new world and, enabling conquerors such as the conquistadors from Spain an advantage alongside their superior weapons in colonizing and conquering indigenous populations.
Document 7 is a political cartoon that t shows an army of “pop culture” conquering the indigenous members of the island, who have been forced out of their homes. The conquering army represents American culture, and shows how it takes out the rest of the native competition when it “invades” an area. This cartoon sends the message that commercial products, as a result of trade, De story the uniqueness countries have and how cultural diffusion as a result of globalization on leads to a loss of sense of place.
