HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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a DECREASE in farming innovations (inventions) as different areas shared crops & techniques
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an INCREASE in isolation and a rise of nationalism
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Massive environmental damage
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Growth of cities in Africa, Asia, & Eastern Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Silk Road was a vast trade network connecting Eurasia and North Africa via land and sea routes. The Silk Road earned its name from Chinese silk, a highly valued commodity that merchants transported along these trade networks. Advances in technology and increased political stability caused an increase in trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Afro-Eurasia, all agrarian civilizations were linked together into a vast interconnected network by the beginning of the Common Era. This network involved not only the trading of material goods, but also the trading of social, religious, and philosophical ideas, languages, new technologies, and disease.
Detailed explanation-3: -The growth of interregional trade was encouraged by innovations in existing transportation technologies. Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade and expanded the geographical range of existing trade routes, including the trans-Saharan trade network.
Detailed explanation-4: -The growth of inter-regional trade in luxury goods was encouraged by innovations in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies, including the caravanserai, forms of credit, and the development of money economies as well as the use of the compass, the astrolabe and larger ship designs.