GHG Online - Global trade and interactions

•	What impact do regional and global trade networks have on world cultures?
•	How are economic systems structured to meet the needs and wants of different societies?
•	How do the movements of people and ideas (cultural diffusion) affect world history?

Focus Questions

•	What was the role of guilds in this economic system?
•	What was the relationship between the rise of capitalism and the decline of feudalism?
•	What role did a class of merchants and bankers play in the rise of capitalism?
•	In a market economy, how does the system determine what goods and services are to be produced and in what quantities and for whom?
•	How did a capitalist economy change the way men and women worked?
•	What goods were being traded within Europe and between Europe and the rest of Afro-Eurasia? Why?
•	Outside of Europe, what were the major Afroeurasian trading centers?

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Vocabulary

apprentices	global trade routes
banking	journeymen
capitalism	merchants
commercial revolution	trade fairs
guilds	usury
Hanseatic League

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Scholarship

Bentley, Jerry. 1993. Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press.

Christian, David and William H. McNeill. 2004. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkley: University of California Press.

Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Flynn, Dennis O., Arturo Giraldez and Richard von Glahn. 2003. Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470-1800. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Frank, Andre Gunder. 1998. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University of California Press.

McNeill, William H. 1998. Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press.

Pacey, Arnold. 1990. Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press.

Wolf, Eric. 1982. Europe and the People Without History. Berkley: University of California Press.

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Helpful Hints

•	Global Trade and Interactions: Students can create a visual aid by overlapping timelines of events/turning points occurring in various world regions during this period. This would be a great activity for an after-school geography club, which could claim a hallway bulletin board or wall.
•	Students should be able to trace the rise and evolution of capitalism as an economic system. Capitalism was made possible due to changes in Europe's economic system and by overseas expansion.

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Resources for Teachers (Books/Articles, Visuals/Music)

	Chaucer, Geoffrey and Geraldine McCaughrean, ed. 1996. Canterbury Tales. Puffin Classics. New York: Oxford University Press.

	Chaudhuri, K.N. 1985. Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. New York: Cambridge University Press.

	Dunn, Ross. 1986. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14^th Century. Berkley: University of California Press.

	Hourani, George F. and John Caswell. 1995. *Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Medieval Times.* Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press.

	Lopez, Robert S. 1976. The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350. New York: Cambridge University Press.

	Rossabi, Morris. 1992. Voyages from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

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Visuals



	Silk Road Trade Routes and other trade routes


	http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/vasco3.htm


	http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/arnolfini/


	http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/ bluedot/banking.html

	Venice http://www.venicescapes.org/Venicescapes.htm

	Map of Ming Treasure Voyages http://www.askasia.org/teachers/maps/map.php? no=44&era=&grade=&geo=

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePagLink=toah_1

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Learning Experience(s)

Editor's Note: To date there have been no Learning Experiences submitted for this subsection. If you wish to submit one, please refer to http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/sscontentcall.html.

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Assessments

Editor's Note: All state examinations are aligned to the New York State Learning Standards for Social Studies and Social Studies Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. The chart below specifies where these alignments have occurred (from June 2000 to the present).

Core Curriculum:

Global History and Geography Regents:

1.	Resurgence of Europe
	a.	Hanseatic League and Italian city-states
	b.	Trade fairs and towns
	c.	Medieval guilds
	d.	Commercial revolution
2.	Major trading centers—Nanjing/Calicut/ Mogadishu/Venice
3.	Ibn Battuta
4.	Expansion of the Portuguese spice trade to Southeast Asia and its impact on Asia and Europe

August 2002 DBQ, Migration

1.	Resurgence of Europe
	d.	Commercial revolution

August 2001 Thematic, Change – Turning Points

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