UNIT 9: Connections Across Land

How were land-based trade routes conduits of both commerce and culture? The Eurasian Silk Roads, the trans-Saharan Gold Roads, and the Meso-American Turquoise Roads trace the transmission of commodities, religions, and diseases, as well as the movements of people.

Jerry H. Bentley speaks to the destructive forces of major trade routes and their effects on the connected societies.
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