ANT200H5 Lecture 15: ANT200 Lesson w.e
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Trade the action of exchanging material goods or commodities. Exchange wider meaning, referring to all interpersonal contacts, including the exchange of information ideas and genes. Caused the spread of disease (black death), values language, culture. Internal with a society (tightly related social structure) External between societies (can be between individuals of different societies) One source of cultural/social changes (interactions between societies and cultures) They are also related to political, social, and ritual systems. Early evidence paleolithic groups trading for stone raw materials including obsidian. Small scale networks operating locally or within a region (locally depends on context/definition) Large scale networks (especially in old world) silk road china to near/east europe. Maritime time routes from europe to near east or to the far east. The silk routes (overland and maritime) were established for economic exchange of goods (silk, spices, tea, jade ), but also allowed the flow of people and their genes, culture, diseases and beliefs.
