HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Silk Road, Mercator Projection, Sericulture
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How history is written, how historians show their work. Most diverse of languages and cultures (1500 languages) Africa is often thought of as a region. Mercator projection (useful for travel and navigation) 3d globe into 2d map, places by the equator distorted. Gall peters projection (shows accurate size of africa) Northern africa was important part of roman empire. Medieval geographers did not all considered africa to be the same, nor the same as what we consider today. Wealthy lived in luxury, mostly wealthy from trade. Weight is equal for coins in greek/rome. Series of routes that joined people across asia. Religion also travelled along the silk road. Sericulture (raising of silkworms to produce silk) in china by 3000 bce. Silk has been found in graves in greece and germany. Purchasing of silk in rome almost destabilized the economy bc so much gold was leaving rome.
