New Resources Discoveries And Changes Of Bulk Trade Routes

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.” This quote was said by Benjamin Franklin in the late 1700s. These words are so simple, and it seems like anyone could have said them. However, this quote has a bigger meaning in that throughout world history, trade has been so important to so many countries and it has led to many empires successes. It has occurred for a very long time, and it has progressed dramatically. Trade has changed a lot, but some parts of trade stayed the same over a long periods of time. In the era between 300 CE and 1450 CE, trade between Eurasia and Africa changed because the empires and kingdoms in power were replaced and their control over trade differed;

Although Afro-Eurasian trade routes continuously were the method of transit for many luxury goods and religions; the importance of these routes, the people that controlled them, and the diseases and ideas that were spread across these routes changed tremendously throughout the period from 300 CE to 1450 CE.

If there was ever an important period historians, and people could put a finger on, this would be it. This is the important period where the world’s countries, kingdoms, and dynasties established trade routes. This is the period where countries were made and countries were destroyed because of the importance of trade and the importance of building a fundamental, religious, and economical way of life. This paper will discuss the goals and functions of trades, and traders, and a historical analysis of world trade. This paper will also get into world trade patterns, of The Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Indian Ocean, The Silk routes, China and The South China Sea, Europe and The Mediterranean, and The Atlantic Exploration.

Gas is some what air in my opinion because you cant see it but you can hear it, you can feel air from the breeze. You can also breathe it because we breathe air for our lungs. People, animals, plants and machines use gases or convert them into something they can use for their survival. People use gases from or air from trees that they covert and we use to breathe, we also use gases from natural resources for energy. Animals rely on air because plants need it to make food and animals eat the grass or their host that does. We use machines that use gases like propane that burns like gas to make machines function right. An example of gases is air, propane. This relates to the work we have done in class in some ways because it talks about some of the experiments we have done with balloons and air and how much is needed for an object to operate and work

While the Indian Ocean and Silk Road were different as trade networks with respect to the spread of Religion and the process of travel, they were similar in terms of the spread of disease through trade.

The change before the seventeenth century with Africans was significant. They were seen differently, developing racism, especially during the Trans-Atlantic Trade. Many events contributed continuity of the labor systems, such as the South Atlantic System and Triangle Trade system. The labor systems changed significantly within the West Indies and the Southern Colonies due to this trade. Slavery made up a large part of the social development of these areas due to the massive amount of land work.

We as a world together have been through a lot of changes and made a lot of advances over the past couple of centuries. Many have argued about the outcome of the European expansion on the Americas. Some people feel that the Europeans had both a positive and negative impact on the expansion; however, the negative impact gave a devastating result, which would continue to change history for almost four hundred years. The Europeans were manipulative towards to indigenous people of the Americas. They exploited them, using them as their personal slaves. Most importantly, they silently murdered the Natives by introducing them to diseases such as the measles and smallpox. Consequently, a small pox epidemic was caused, which resulted in the

Indian Ocean Region is the best trade route it. The route carry more products and profited per trip. Which helped the social and economic ties between area. Eventually those ties will be ruined due to the fall of the Mongol empire. Previous trade connections and interaction were ruined. Eventually the new ties will make tension for who gets the right to control the Indian Ocean trade route in period 4. Trading still occurs but it was no longer safe. The Indian Ocean network was never controlled by a single empire. Eventually what was traded was different. The government still charge a reasonable amount for trading in the Indian Network. Cites also still grew around the ports. The trading network was near east asia, India, and east coast

As the British North American colonies began to develop, the Trans-Atlantic trade route started to thrive. The small farmers in the West Indies, and the southern colonies began cultivating the land and growing newly found crops. These new crops were in high demand in Europe as they seen as luxury items. The small farmers could not meet the demands for the crops, causing a change in the labor systems. This change introduced the use of indentured servitude and slavery to the American colonies.

The Silk Road, Indian Ocean Trade and Trans-Saharan Trade Networks were all routes/networks of trade throughout the eastern hemisphere. People would travel these routes so that they could trade for things that they wanted from other areas. Here, people were able to trade for commodities and raw materials, but also be able to learn about new things such as religion and education. Culture and economy allowed for trade to expand in the Silk Road, Indian Ocean and Trans-Saharan Trade Networks and it brought people from different lands together, expanded their knowledge, and affected their governments through its views.

Trade networks in Africa from 1000-1750 CE changed, such as the increase of the slave trade, yet continued to have some of the same characteristics, such as the exports.

Klare argues that discovery of a natural resource, for instance, oil, result in producers seeking and exploiting the most desirable, best quality and those closest to markets. Over time, these “easy” resources become scarce, of poorer quality, harder to extract and extend into areas further away from the market. This subsequent need to extract “tougher” resources has catalyzed an age of discovery that energy experts call the “shale revolution.” Daniel Yergin, an author and energy optimist describes the “natural gas

is. After the surprise and disappointment of continued gas finds, oil companies realized that opportunity might be presenting itself. With large amounts of

Natural gas is made up of just the two elements, Carbon and Hydrogen. All of the natural gas we use today began as microscopic plants and animals living in the ocean. As they become buried ever deeper, heat and pressure begin to rise. Natural gas deposits migrated until they were caught under impermeable layers of rock or clay, where they were trapped. (“Natural gas and,” 2013)

The formation of the other two fossil fuels (crude oil and natural gas) took millions of years just like coal. Oil and gas come from the remains of small animals and plants. Long ago, when the animals and plants died, they sank to the bottom of the sea. The dead matter formed a large mass, which over time was covered by layers of sand, silt, and mud. As the weight of the sediment increased, the mass became more and more compressed. Then, the heat and pressure of the Earth eventually turned the mass into oil and gas. If the heat applied during the formation was low, then more oil was produced than gas. If the temperature was