A Heavy Piece Of Trade: Cannons

From around 1500 to 1750 Spanish colonial America and Tokugawa Japan led the world in silver production. At the begging of the 1570’s the Ming Chinese government required that all domestic taxes and trade fees be paid in silver. The following documents discuss the effects of this imposition by the Chinese. The documents show the effects on the global flow of silver socially because it describes how the silver changed people’s lifestyle and made it more difficult, economically silver created a large flow of goods and products, and also silver has caused economies to fluctuate Documents 1,5 and 6 talk about how silver changed the lifestyle of people and made things a lot more difficult. Document 1 written by Ye Chunji, county official

With the ever emerging civilizations in numerous parts of the world, food aided in linking them together. Food-trade routes acted as inter-boundary communication networks that improved not just commercial exchange but religious and cultural exchange as well. Spice routes that spanned the ancient world resulted in cross cultural fertilization in fields which were very diverse, similar then to the fields of architecture, religion and science. The first geographers began to take interest in people and customs from far away places and put together the first efforts at world maps. But by far the biggest change caused by food trade was as a result of the European need to avoid the Arab spice domination. The result of this was the revelation of a new world, the establishment of first colonial outposts by the European nations and the opening of maritime trade routes

All firearms larger than small arms are known as artillery or cannon. Although there were dozens of different types of cannon used during the Civil War, they all fell into one of two categories: smoothbore or rifled cannon. They were further designated by the weight of their projectile (12-pounder, 24-pounder, 32-pounder, etc.), the caliber or size of their bore diameter (3-inch, 8-inch, 10-inch), method of loading (breech or muzzle), and often their inventor or the factory in which they were made (i.e. Dahlgren, Napoleon, Rodman, Parrott, Whitworth). A further distinction involved the path of their trajectories: guns had a flat

According to the map, Great Ages of Man: Early Islam, it shows how trade impacted the religion of Islam’s way of life and how it helped spread their culture, [Document A]. The map shows land and sea trade route, in 570, that were used to trade across the Byzantine and Persian empires. Another example is that, according to Desmond Stewart, “Vast camel trains, bearing spices, perfumes… ivory, silk, filled though the town headed north on the way from Yemen… to the markets of Syria and headed east from the Red sea across the desert to Iraq,” [Document A]. Trading was an easy and resourceful way to preach and inform people about Islam. Since, they traded with a wide variety of places they were able to spread the words of Allah to many time of people.

During the time frame of 1450-1750, the Columbian Exchange was at its height of power and influence. Many products were introduced from foreign lands, like animals such as cattle, chickens, and horse, and agriculture such as potatoes, bananas, and avocados. Diseases also became widespread and persisted to distant lands where it wreaked devastation upon the non-immunized people. One such influential product during this time period was the cacao, or more commonly known as chocolate. First discovered and used in the Americas, cacao beans quickly traveled to and became a popular treat in European lands. It was valuable in the New World and even used as a currency by the Aztecs. Only the rich and privileged

At the start of this period in 300 C.E, Afro-Eurasian trade was not very sophisticated. There was some collaboration with cultures in the Mediterranean. European goods were brought to

When Truth Hopkin’s father dies a slow and tragic death of tuberculosis, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Her mother passed away when she was an infant. So she doesn't remember her at all, not in the slightest of memories. Even though she wants to so badly. She wants to know her mother, she wants a mother. And now her father has passed away from the awful disease of tuberculosis. I feel very bad for Truth Hopkins… I couldn’t imagine losing my both of my parents. My mom AND my dad… That is terrifying to even think about. Let alone it actually happening. That makes me very very truly indescribably grateful for what i have. And who i have in my life with me. But anyways, like Truth, the

In 1775, thirteen colonies began a fight for their independence from Britain’s rule. Without formal training in artillery tactics or a proper armament of artillery pieces, early units had to overcome adversity and hardship. But with courage and dedication the artillery and its leadership were able to play a vital role in the success on the battlefields, and ultimately the victory resulting in America earning its freedom.

It was located at the juncture of many different trade routes, which linked the Persian Gulf and Central Asia to the Mediterranean. This made the kingdom important in spice trade. Other important capitals were timber, grain, wine, silk, and raisins, which were all exported from the country. During the reign of King Levon, Cilician Armenia’s economy flourished and became strongly cohesive with Western Europe.

trade between Africa, Europe, and North America. By trading rum, money and goods were brought

Before the age of exploration, spices changed hands many times on their way to Europe-

Europeans gain access to new goods and markets, and this creates a demand for things like silk, spices, and ivory.

2017). From there, the Moors and the Ottoman Turks created their own forms of firearms. The Moors fought the Europeans in Spain for control of the area, and not even a year after that war the first firearms were finished in Italy. Soon after that the first cannons began to appear, the earliest to appear was from the Turks, they created the bombard. Which were these huge cannon, bigger than one could imagine. The bombards would blow down castle wall this was one of the key weapons that caused the city to fall. With it, fell the recipe of another type of gunpowder, which was mostly used as an early form of flame thrower (Sammon, J. 2012).

During the eighth century throughout the late sixteenth century, one trade route entranced everyone involved from the Mediterranean to the Africa’s. The Trans – Saharan Trade was an important trade route that ran across the Sahara between the Mediterranean countries and West Africa. In the beginning stages of the Trans- Saharan trade many small trade routes were being used throughout the period. this is because travelling across the Sahara before the domestication of the camel was difficult. The Trans-Saharan trade route did more than attract traders. This route was an economical boost for many and also connected the West African people with the Mediterranean people.

Beans, cassava, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes and sweet potatoes thus were introduced to Africa as a direct cause of the European exploring of the American continent. Asian seasonings like pepper, cinnamon, clove, curry and nutmeg were introduced as well.