understanding5.1.1

=5.1.1 Emerging Global System= Analyze the impact of increased oceanic travel including changes in the global system of trade, migration, and political power as compared to the previous era.

Focus Question
What effects did increased oceanic travel have on the interactions among Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas?

Possible Concentration
The long and often dangerous overland trade routes between regions in the Eastern Hemisphere provided economic incentives for rulers and mariners to consider a greater reliance on oceanic trade routes. Early mariners had ventured to all the coasts of Africa, to India, the Southeast Asian Archipelago, and to the lands of the Western Hemisphere. New products and new opportunities, such as trade in spices, the exchange of ideas, and the exchange of technologies occurred. Political power became associated with maritime strength.

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