This extensive trade route allowed West African kingdoms to trade valuable resources, most notably gold and salt, for other goods like textiles and various spices. This map also highlights the importance of key trade cities like Timbuktu which served
As Swahili once said, “Wisdom is wealth.” The major trade routes of this time frame were mostly located right around Askum. Askum had a huge advantage on a lot of civilizations because they were perfectly placed on the Red Sea. Askum had reached their highest point at around 325 CE and 360 CE. Africa had a lot of already developed civilizations with a structured way of life.
Many similarities and differences are between the Columbian Exchange and The Atlantic Slave Trade, such as the exchange of people/goods, trading on a boat, disease, and agriculture. Many similarities happened during the During the Atlantic slave trade with the Columbian exchange, for instance Americans would capture Africans and take them away to the americas or trading with other slave traitors and in return gets goods/money. Some of the good could be crops, other slaves, and money. To be able to trade a slave for goods there had to be a way for crops to exist. This is where the Columbian exchange comes in.
The Phoenicians were the ones who developed the prosperous commercial centers of Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos, which are essential trading
The Columbian Exchange between the new world and the old world significantly change people’s lives. After 1492, Europeans brought in horses to America which changes the nomadic Native American groups’ living from riding on buffalos to horses. This interchange also change the diet of the rest of the world with foods such as corns (maize), potatoes which are major diet for European nowadays. Besides all the animals from old world to the new world, Spanish also brought in the diseases that Native Americans were not immune of, such as smallpox which led to a large amount of Native Americans’ deaths.
During 600 BCE and 600 CE, many countries was going through a drastic change. When analyzing early civilizations, it’s evident there is similarities and differences. The Middle East, China, and Africa were among few countries that advanced during this aeon. All of these empires within the countries have risen and fallen, developing these civilizations to what we know of today.
This empire is located in modern day Ethiopia, Africa. Axum had two different climatic and topographical regions. The main city’s port was on the Red Sea and was called Adulis. There is was hot all the time and had little rainfall with scrubby vegetation. As you go further inland you would find plateaus and rainy days.
The development of Mesoamerica and Andean South America had one major item in common and that was neither civilization had the strong political powers that ran previous empires such as the Roman. Other likenesses were the agriculture both empires flourished with crops of corn, potatoes and beans because these products thrived in a variety of soils and with different climates (Wallech, 2013). Many differences that these two civilizations differ from others is simply because of location and the rivers that separated them and the ability to move easily and share cultural beliefs and achievements, but no matter how much space is between civilizations there was always violence and the pattern of societies rising and falling ("Notes on Mesoamerican
The Inca, Aztecs, and Mayan are similar from they worshiped gods. As they worshiped god very religiously and did sacrifices with everyone as there are a bunch of ceremonies for there gods for rain crops food. They all used the same resources for building Adobe was one of the biggest resources for houses throughout the inca aztec and mayan empires. All empires ended in the 1500s Actually all the Inca, Aztec and Mayan empires ended in the 1500s once the spanish took over and kill them with diseases but the mayan did slowly disappear. All of some of the major dates that happened in an empire happened in 1400 ad As in the Inca empire The Inca, led by Manco Capac, migrate to the Cuzco Valley and establish their capital at Cuzco.
I also can see how trade impacted the agriculture and then the reasons agriculture ended up failing. The Axum people were also the first capital of one of the biggest empires of Ethiopia, which led to a structure of religion, government and language.
Ancient history civilization did not leaves us much aside from great legends and tales that transcends through time. Carthage was one of these great city-states. It was situated in North Africa and claimed to have been founded around 813 BCE by Queen Elisa, also known in history as Dido. She, along with other Phoenicians, fled the city of Tyre once Macedonians took over. By driving away Natives such as the Lydians and the Numidians away from the tunisian region, the phoenicians started a small trading port and grew to become one the most powerful cities of the Mediterranean before Rome rose over them as the new Empire.(Cartwright, 2018).
The Olmec people traded jade with surrounding areas to thrive within the community so that they could get more materials that they needed. Trading for items that the people needed but did not have helped the complex society stay alive and thrive. In the Olmec society, the people practiced a religion and spread it among the people of the area. Spread of a religion within a society brought the people closer together to focus on common goals which helped the society evolve into something more complex. In the pyramids of the Olmecs, there were a lot of polished mirrors, which the Olmecs traded to obtain.
East and West Africa from 1000 to 1500 CE had profound differences in forms of government, with West Africa being kingdom based, and East Africa city-state based. The conversion of Eastern and Western African ruling elites compacted trading between themselves and Islamic traders from Mesopotamia, China, India, and as far away as Oceania. The relatively stable political environment from 1000-1500 CE in Sub-Saharan Africa attracted displaced peoples from the Abbasid empire in Northern Africa, with West Africa utilizing Trans-Saharan trade, and East Africa utilizing mariner trade routes. The East and West developed in clearly different ways, but paralleled each other in a way in which the political, social, and economic environments facilitated stable trade in the region, as well as a distinct blend between Islamic culture and African tradition.
Throughout time civilizations have risen and collapsed. Some were conquered while others simply disappeared. The Egyptian civilization thrived near the Nile River from 3000 B.C. and was later conquered by the Persian Empire around 525 B.C. In the other hand, the Mayan civilization developed in Yucatan Peninsula around 200 B.C., and mysterious disappeared around 900 A.D. However, these two cultures share many factors in common such as developing calendars and building pyramids. Even though civilizations developed in different time periods, they can still have many factors in common such as environment, language, and architecture.
Some differences between West Africa and America. Although they bear some superficial similarities, the differences between life in Africa and that of America is clear. Firstly, I would like to start with the weather. There are only two seasons in Africa; the rainy season and the dry season. The rainy season is generally the time of the year when the rain brings new life in the wilderness areas of Africa and bringing forth new growth.
