Trade Networks

Please close read the following articles and respond to the questions below.

• Regional Trade Networks Links to an external site.
• Long Distance Trade in the Americas Links to an external site.
• Networks and Exchange in the Islamic World Links to an external site.

Questions (Answer about one paragraph per question). Please use at least one piece of cited evidence from each article in your responses:

1. How did trade networks evolve (begin and grow) in early human communities?
2. What were some of the early goods traded over long distances? How do you think that changed over time?
3. What impacts did expanding trade networks have on the spread of people and ideas around the planet?
4. How do you think those impacts were felt at different levels of the social hierarchies of these trading societies?