Culture Mixing and its Impact on Societies
We as humans spend our lives in communities along with other people. Human being formed different kinds of societies, such as villages, cities, and countries, in which each person is working to achieve their goals. Throughout history humans have developed a sophisticated network of exchange and culture mixing in which they created new societies and new races that never existed before. Strayer puts a heavy emphasis on the process of culture mixing in the history of the world. The long process of culture mixing has been an essential factor of improving societies and their attitudes towards others. Exchange and mixing culture of different societies had a major role in creating and spreading religions
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Without blending between different people new societies and empires would have being difficult to emerge. Most of the mixing process of culture did not come with peace, instead it began with wars and killings because no society wanted to ruin their own culture and kneel for others culture. They feared that in the name of mixing culture they get conquered. However, with all those restrictions and difficulties that were against it, but it happened and it altered the world into a better one. Without trade most of the exchange and mixing cultures would not have happened. The growth of long distance trade led to the formation of many states and empires with a diverse culture from other regions and parts of the world. Since the Silk Road was composed of traders with diverse religion and language, therefore many religion and language spread quickly through the whole region. Another way of mixing culture was by using force against the weak societies, they conquered the weak and set new culture and traditions for them. However, exchange and mixing of culture helped the world to grow and improve. Nowadays because of culture mixing, people understand and help each other all over the world even if they do not each other
Based on the given documents 1-8, reasons for exchanges among major societies in the period 600-1450 were mainly focused on places of religious importance, the demand for sweet tasting foods, and the abundance of necessary materials, and with this the results of exchanges among major societies in the period 600-1450 were mainly the diffusion of culture through trade, the growth of population where there was a growth of trade, and the spread of ideas or traditions through trade, while the scope and pace of exchange among major societies in the period 600-1450 were mainly increased by the development of major trade routes. Based on the given documents, reasons for exchanges among major societies in the period 600-1450 were mainly focused on
The Columbian exchange and the Silk road were both trading system. Europeans, Caribbeans, Africans, Asians and Americans, were connected to the Columbian exchange as the Silk Road linked China, India, and many other empires. Despite the fact that the Ottoman empire was easy-going with the different religions, the Hasburg empire didn’t give any religion the benefit of the doubt. As the Ottoman empire encountered an economic hit, this did not stop them from increasing the taxes on trade. As the Natives involuntary worked on encomienda, they produced goods that will be sold in Europe.
Without a consistent form of communication, trade, during the Middle Ages, was the biggest catalyst for the spread of religious reform, political organization, and societal development across Europe. How was the spread of these elements through trade important in the development of a more advanced, and modern society during this time period? The advancement of the Frankish Kingdom combined with the progress of the Mongols through Asia provided the proper situation to cultivate advancement in the Eastern World. Charlemagne came to power, and immediately it was clear that he was determined to make religious changes in Europe. He defeated the Pagan Saxons after a long brutal conflict with them, annexing all of Germany into his kingdom.
One of the more important factors was understanding the economic power of china. China supplied for and consumed products of this trading network. They also provided technological innovations. Another factor was that there was a sudden rise of Islam and its spread across the Afro-Eurasia world. This creation of the Arab Empire brought together a political system in range of economies and cultural traditions thus providing a vast area for trade.
In the time period from 600- 1450 C.E, at the beginning of the post classical era there was an increase in trade and major religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam began to spread through trading routes such as the silk roads. The silk roads made easier the spread of many ideas and goods such as weaponry across regions. As these religions spread they became the foundation of new empires and allowing a structure and keeping peace among the people. Over time trade became more and more important with merchants traveling long distances and selling luxury goods to the elites, and commerce on the Indian ocean allowed for an abundance of goods to be transported over a large distance by sea, thus new states and empires coming into greater
Cultures come together as goods and ideas are exchanged, resulting in diverse traditions, beliefs, and practices. For example, trade routes in the Middle East during the Post-classical era spread all throughout Asia and Africa, and even through sea routes using the Indian Ocean. (Document 1). The development of new economic systems helped connect people from various cultures and backgrounds as well. Trade grew the global market that crossed borders.
There was also trade between the two groups; Europeans
In turn, these civilizations helped each other develop, and they all were able to keep up with one another. The Silk road promoted the trade of various products and skills throughout the third-wave era, from all around Eurasia. China spread papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and compasses; Other Asian countries collectively spread medicine, and agriculture; and the Middle East spread math and astronomy. Similarly, the Sea roads also helped spread products and ideas from one area to another. South Asian countries and the middle east were able to spread Navigation & shipbuilding skills, Spices, medicines, astronomy, textiles, weaving, math, calculations, and metalworking.
This tangle of trade routes and connections between these empires and people is what began the evolution of cultural diffusion into something that we still experience today. It is an ongoing exchange across countries, lands and
Why did the Silk Road encourage the trade?The Silk Road trade had good ideas and culture past between the eastern and the western civilizations. First of all, the goods and ideas spread throughout the Silk Road. For example, in the Document A shows from all over the countries like China, Central Asia, Africa, India, and Europe trade items on the Silk Road. This explain the way of the Silk Road connect the countries to trade with each other. When walking through the Silk Road to country to country, there is a lot of trade around the civilizations selling silk, ores, seeds, and other items.
Islamic trade and trade customs exercised a deep influence on … Christian countries - such words as ‘traffic’ [derived from Arabic tafriq], which means distribution”(Document 9). Vocabulary and language are such major parts of this world. Without the spread of it through trade, it could very well be diminished. Along with the growth of knowledge, Christianity was also impacted. The Islamic trade industry was so monumental that they were able to retain knowledge and spread a religion that would become one of the largest religions in the modern world.
Buddhist traders from India and China spread the religion to some inhabitants of Eastern Africa. Hindu traders from India traded with Muslim traders, facilitating
Cultural collisions can have a negative or positive effect on people. Trying to change such a big part of you and the way you have always lived can be very hard on people. Others will choose to embrace it. Nwoye’s sense of identity was challenged with the introduction of Western ideas into the Ibo culture. Nwoye started out the novel sensitive and confused, but the cultural collision of the British colonists and Ibo people affected Nwoye, positively to the point of changing cultures and leaving his clan.
During the exchange, religion and cultural practices were spread from the Old World to the New World. This spread developed new customs that changed the way we perceive each other and the ways we interact with each other. The two major religions that spread were Christianity and Roman Catholicism. Christianity first came to the Americas with the Europeans. Unlike today, there was no official separation between the church and state, “and politics and religion were very much mixed.
(Tan 84). Peoples' communicating leads to the spread of different ideas. Language connects societies figuratively and literally. Culture and language influence people extensively which allow people to be susceptible to miscommunication when a barrier is too vast. Familial relationships disrupt from language barriers.