Intro to part 3 and Chapter 7: Commerce and Culture

The silk, sea, and sand roads are the largest reasons as to why culture spread. The first to be established for the silk roads which was an exchange across Eurasia. The reason they are called silk Road it’s because silk was the luxury good that was most wanted by other cultures and what was exchanged the most. Although the silk roads were known for exchanging more luxurious items it also carried livestock such as camels. The Silk roads did not only trade goods, but it also traded cultures. due to the trade of livestock diseases also were treated as well. This was the greatest consequences to trading on the silk road. Another road known as the sea roads is the exchange across the Indian Ocean. The sea roads was the largest sea based system of communication developed. The largest Seaborn trade was in the Indian Ocean basin and it had the largest cosmopolitan exchange. The sea Road was meant to carry more goods in bulk such as textiles, pepper, timber, rice how much more. This was another way to exchange cultures and religions. Lastly the sand roads what is a way to exchange across the Sahara Desert. Like the silk and sea roads many people were able to trade cultures through the sand Road. The sand roads help to trade a different set of goods then they silk and sea roads. The people who used the sand roads tended to trade things such as gold, salt  and slaves. All three were used as a way to exchange goods and cultures to other places.