Long-Distance Commerce and Its Influence in China
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Answer question 1 or question 2. Question 1: What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads and Sand Roads? Question 2: How did China influence the world of the third-wave era? How was China itself transformed by its encounter with a wider world? Extra credit: What are some other open ended discussion questions that I might have asked?
Answer previewQuestion 1: What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads?
The Sea, Sand, and Silk Roads were developed to facilitate trade from one region to another. The long-distance trade along these roads was motivated by the people’s desire to accumulate wealth. This was a way of life to help people earn a living. Traders had to walk and travel long distances to exchange goods with other commodities for wealth. This was because certain regions could only have certain…
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