HIS102Y1 Lecture 7: LEC 7Intro_ encounters and adaptations
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Exchange of wine, figs and olives from the mediterranean, spices, plants, people and animals. Merchants, never knew if they would see home again. Soldiers to defend borders or as conquering expeditions. Garrison sometimes grew to small towns, soldiers marry local women, hybrid population. Moved seasonally, from region to region, large scale migrations. Became strong enough to disrupt and create empires (parthians) Nomads realize sturcture in china more sophisticated, adopted and adapt chinese style. (cid:272)ities/to(cid:449)(cid:374)s/tradi(cid:374)g (cid:272)e(cid:374)tres (cid:373)ade (cid:271)y garrisons (rome and china) at strategic points, Greek garrison towns, you can see greek influence of art and culture. To support monks people would produce food to feed monks. Became imperial centres of trade wealth and government. Petra, city of pink rock: south jordan, inhabited by nabateans, originally from north arabia. Learnt how to carve out of rock systems to store water. If u live in a region where u can grow spices, u live in an advantage.
