What was the nature of the overland routes across Eurasia? What types of goods were traded over these routes? What effects did these routes have on state development?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Overland Routes across Eurasia
1. long-range trade was small in scale
2. carrying goods of high value and limited bulk
3. series of markets and middlemen
B. Development of the Silk Roads
1. Chinese manufactured goods flowed from the Caspian to the Black Sea, and into gold-rich kingdoms in the southwest of the Eurasian steppe
C. Effects
1. brought people from different cultures together
2. facilitated the flow of the ideas
3. transmitted the works of art that changed taste and the goods that influenced lifestyles
4. exposed disparities in wealth between East and West
a. Roman world produced little that trading partners wanted
b. the silks of China and the spices and incense of Arabia and the Indian Ocean were much in demand
c. created an adverse balance of trade since the western world had to pay in gold and silver for these in-demand goods
d. affected the development of future states in the West on how to procure the gold and silver or produce goods that would be in demand
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