ACCT 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Jared Diamond, The Great Game, Indo-European Languages
4 Jul 2020
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China"s one road, one belt project economic belt +maritime road. The old silk road (120 bce 1450 ce) signified a large trade road, where a lot of the trade took place, a lot of exchanges. Old world web (200 bce 1500 ce) Oasis trading posts (places where people could stop along the way, where people could trade and rest: goods. Trade specialisations that where being sold to societies who didn"t have that specializations or the goods to make that: technology. Examples: gunpowder, printing techniques, compass, paper: ideas, language. Travel accounts and globe trotters came back with stories about the east: disease. Christian: immunities were exchanged along the silk roads. As jared diamond has suggested, afro-eurasian communities, partly because of similar uses of livestock, acquired many diseases from their livestock, and exchanges ensured that to some extent they shared immunities to these diseases . There exists as yet little silk roads theory.
