Pre-Modern World Flashcards
Why has society become more interlinked over time?
- Trade
- Travelers
- Missionary trips
- Pilgrims seeking knowledge, spiritual fulfillment, or to escape prosecution
They carried good ideas that spread.
When and where did active coastal trade begin?
3000 BCE in the Indus Valley
Cowries
Hindi seashells, used as a form of currency
The Silk Routes
- Routes of trade
- Existed before the Christain era
- Knits together vast regions of Asia, and links Asia with Europe and northern Africa
When and why did the premodern world shrink greatly?
- In the 16th century after European sailors found a sea route to Asia and also successfully crossed the western ocean to America.
Why were there many expeditions in the 17th century to South America?
Legends spread to Europe of gold there
The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonization of America was decisively underway by the mid-_______
sixteenth century.
Biological Warfare
Biological warfare is sickness used for an act of war
European conquest over the Spanish and Portugeese was the result of:
Biological warfare
Why did the Spanish and Portuguese get sick when exposed to European germs?
They had no immunity?
Why did people flee Europe for America?
Until the nineteenth century, poverty and hunger were common in Europe. Cities were crowded and deadly diseases were widespread. Religious conflicts were common, and religious dissenters were persecuted.
