HIST-110 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: The Great Game, Malthusian Trap, Neolithic Revolution
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This lecture key aspects of the unit. Slide of the world title europe and dar al-islam: "the abode of. 1500, the start of our period) with the area controlled by islamic regimes is highlited in green. The highlighted are includes the middle east and parts of eastern europe, some asian and. Pacific locations, as well as north africa and some areas of the east. Major trading zones withing africa and eurasia are then overlaid on to the slide. Nearly all of them (2, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8) are wholly within islamic territory, or at least partially within islamic territory. The best trade products: gold from africa, cotton in india, porcelain in china, and silk and gunpowder in asia, are far from europe. Europe is at the north-westward extreme of the world"s economic trading zones. It has few commodities that the rest of the world wants, such as wool and salt cod .