in history and taught university and high school history. Cite this lesson In the Middle Ages, trade networks brought about the cultural and economic exchange between distant countries. Explore the famous Silk Road, details of Indian Ocean trade, and the significance of these networks in Europe ...
Much of the international trade was dominated by plebeians or former slaves, as members of the elite could not engage in trade by law. However, they were probably investors in commercial ventures. The growth of transnational commercial networks resulted in the development of new financial techniques...
In the Western world a number of peoples, including the Egyptians, Sumerians, Cretans, Phoenicians, and Greeks, at one time or another dominated trade. Ancient trade networks could be extensive; Egyptian beads have been excavated in Denmark from graves that date to c.1400 B.C. The Crusades...
1936～1937represented the pre-war peak in scope and intensity of the system;the last was an unconventional stage after the war in 1937.The spatial distribution of domestic trade changed violently in the century.The networks in north and south of the Yangtze River also had large regional ...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and beyond along the ancient Silk Road trade routes for common development and prosp
These criminal networks only pay a tiny portion of the final price they get for the animals they receive. Beautiful animals are shipped off to faraway markets, whole or apart. Angry We’ve barely started yet. The animal parts are being shipped along with weapons, drugs, even people". These...
Trade routes, trust and trading networks : chinese small enterprises in Singapore Neolithic trade routes re-aligned by oxygen isotope analyses. Long-Distance Trade-Routes in Central Africa The significance of the Cape trade route to economic activity in the Cape Colony: a medium-term business cycle...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and beyond along the ancient Silk Road trade routes for comm...
BRI, a reference to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, was initiated by China in 2013 to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa and beyond the ancient Silk Road trade routes. ...
In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world through the lens of the prominent Chinese merchant Houqua, whose trading network and financial connections stretched from China to India, America and Britain. In contrast to interpret...