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Ch 03 - The Making of a Global World10th History

The Silk Routes in Pre-Modern History

What were the 'Silk Routes', and what was their significance in pre-modern global exchange?

CONCEPT

Pre-Modern Global Links

The Network: They were vibrant pre-modern trade networks that connected vast regions of Asia, and linked Asia with Europe and North Africa.
Economic Trade: Chinese silk cargoes, Indian textiles, and precious spices travelled westward, while gold and silver flowed from Europe to Asia.
Cultural Exchange: Early Christian missionaries, Muslim preachers, and Buddhist monks travelled and spread their faiths through these exact routes.

Prism Memory Hook

Silk, Spices, and Faith flow West; Gold flows East

Food Travels: The Origins of Spaghetti

How does the history of spaghetti illustrate pre-modern cultural exchange?

FACT

Noodles to Spaghetti

Chinese Origin: It is widely believed that noodles travelled west from China to eventually become spaghetti in Europe.
Arab Connection: Alternatively, Arab traders are believed to have taken pasta to fifth-century Sicily (an island in present-day Italy).
The Lesson: These food histories prove that long-distance cultural and material contact existed well before the modern era of globalization.

Prism Memory Hook

Chinese Noodles and Arab Pasta become Italian Spaghetti

The Columbian Exchange: Crops from the Americas

Which common foods were introduced to Europe and Asia after Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered the Americas?

FACT

Foods from the New World

The Crops: Potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, and sweet potatoes.
The Origin: None of these foods were known to ancestors in Asia or Europe until Columbus discovered the Americas. They originated from America's original inhabitants (the American Indians).
The Impact: The introduction of the humble potato drastically changed lives in Europe. Europe's poor began to eat better and live longer.

Prism Memory Hook

Columbus brought Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Maize to Europe

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4The Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849)
5The Legend of El Dorado
6Biological Warfare: The Conquest of the Americas
7Religious Dissenters and Migration
8The Three Flows of the International Economy
9The Scale of 19th-Century World Trade Growth
10Economic Terminology: Tariff
11The British Corn Laws
12Technological Impact: Refrigerated Ships
13Sir Henry Morton Stanley in Africa
14The Berlin Conference and the Partition of Africa (1885)
15Rinderpest: Biological Subjugation of Africa
16The System of Indentured Labour
17Destinations and Legacy of Indian Indentured Labour
18Cultural Blending: The Hosay Procession
19Cultural Fusion: Chutney Music
20The Punjab Canal Colonies
21Indian Capitalists in Global Trade
22The Decline of Indian Cotton Textiles
23The British-Indian Opium Trade
24Britain's Trade Surplus with India
25The Drain of Wealth: Home Charges
26First World War: The First Industrial War
27US Economic Transformation Post-WWI
28Henry Ford and the Assembly Line
29Causes of the Great Depression (1929)
30The Impact of the Great Depression on the US
31The Great Depression's Impact on Colonial India
32Case Study: The Bengal Jute Growers
33Indian 'Distress Gold' and Global Recovery
34The Devastating Scale of World War II
35The Bretton Woods Conference (1944)
36The Bretton Woods Twins: IMF and World Bank
37The Bretton Woods Fixed Exchange Rate System
38The Collapse of Fixed Exchange Rates (1970s)
39The G-77 and the Demand for an NIEO
40The Rise of Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
41The Manufacturing Shift to Low-Wage Economies

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