There are always positives and negatives to trading. China has had plenty of positives from exploring and their superiority due to riches. China also had very lavish materials that were heavily wanted by Europe, all of the other countries envied China for its power. The middle east, the secondly discussed trading country, has negatives to the things that have been exposed to from trading with Europe such as violence over belief systems. Throughout history trade routes created positive impacts in China and negative impacts in The middle East due to being rich and having violence.
Firstly, in China the trade routes were positive. In document One, it states they received gold, glass, ivory, animals, an introduction to Buddhism, and more, this caused cultural diffusion and expansion of ideas for the Chinese. The Silk Road started from China and traveled to Europe, the Chinese were able to get everything they needed because of the efficiency of the silk road. A second positive to the Chinese trade was the impact Zheng left, in document two it shows a map
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Document 3 describes how the crusades caused a growth in trade between Europe and the middle east but because Europe was increasing its power, Italy became a city-state that controlled the trade with the middle east. This made it difficult to know what they can acquire, especially with the violent time of the crusade the middle east wasn't doing very well. A second negative effect in the middle east, which is backed up by Document 3, states that trading during the Crusades created a growth of intolerance of religious beliefs between the Muslims Christians, and Jews. The last negative that is seen in the map of document 6 shows the triangular trade routes and nothing is getting imported into the middle east which caused a gap in cultural diffusion. Therefore the middle east had quite a few negative attributes when