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The Mediterranean, including the ports present in Italy, continued to be a major hub for international exchange.

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Many societies remain patriarchal

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The silk road spread things such as gun powder, paper making techniques, and disease such as Black death.

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the goods traded along the Trans- Saharan trade network were gold, salt, ivory and slaves

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A continuity from the Classical Era was items from China such as Porcelain. It became a luxury to afford.

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Methods of transportation through means of seafaring and ship transportation is still prominently used.  (I.E.) Dhow ships

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Buddhism continues to spread along the trade routes reaching China, Korea, and other parts of South East Asia

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The Mediterranean trade carried Christianity, and spices out from western Europe

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The Silk Road continued to spread diseases just like the Classical Era

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Trade along the Silk road continued to flourish and things such as gunpowder and

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The Indian  Ocean Trade Network remained free from domination of one particular empire unlike the land-based routes of the Silk Road. (Indian Ocean Trade route drawn in blue)