Key Concept 4.1. Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange by Honestie

Intensification of all existing regional trade networks that brought prosperity and economic disruption to the governments in trading regions.

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-Some of these trading regions were of the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, Saharan, and overland Eurasia.

European technological developments in cartography and navigation built on previous knowledge developed in the classical Islamic and Asian worlds.

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-They brought new production of new tools, innovations in ship designs, and improved understanding of global wind and currents patterns- all which made transoceanic travel and trade possible.

Remarkable new transoceanic maritime reconnaissance occurred in this period.

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-Chinese maritime activity expanded into the Indian Ocean.

-Portuguese development of a school for navigation led to increased travel to and trade with West Africa.

-Spanish sponsorship of the first Columbian voyage across the Atlantic and Pacific dramatically increased European interest in transoceanic travel and trade.

-Northern Atlantic crossings for fishing and settlements spurred European searches for routes to Asia.

-In Oceania and Polynesia, established exchange were not affected because of of infrequent European reconnaissance in the Pacific Ocean.

New global circulation of goods was facilitated by royal chartered European monopoly companies but regional markets continued to flourish by using commercial practices and transoceanic services.

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-European merchants' role im Asian trade was characterized by transporting goods from one Asian country to another Asian market/Indian Ocean region.

-Commercialization and the creation of a global economy were intimately connected to new global circulation of silver from the Americas.

-Joint-stock companies were the new methods used by European rulers to control their domestic and colonial economies.

-The Atlantic system involved the movement of goods, wealth, and free and unfree laborers, and the mixing of African and American and European cultures and peoples.

The new connections between Eastern and Western hemispheres resulted in the Columbian Exchange.

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-European colonization of the Americas led to the spread of diseases.

-American foods became staple crops in parts of Europe.

-Afro-Eurasian products by Europeans to the Americas.

-Populations in Afro-Eurasia benefited nutritionally from the diversity of the American crops.

-European colonization and European agriculture and settlement practices in the Americas affected the physical environment through deforestation and soil depletion.

The increases in interaction between newly connected hemispheres expanded the spread and reform of existing religions and created syncretic belief systems.

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-As Islam spread to new settings in Afro-Eurasia , believers adapted it to local cultural practices.

-Christianity continued to spread throughout the world.

-Buddhism spread within Asia.

-Syncretic and new forms of religion developed.

As merchants profits increased the government collected more taxes, funding for the visual and preforming arts.

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-Innovations in visual and preforming arts were seen all over the world.

-Literacy expanded and was accomplished by the proliferation of popular authors,literary and works of literature in Afro-Eurasia

Honestie & Hannah

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