Key Concept 2.3 Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange
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The large empires that emerged in the classical age created massive amounts of goods and became markets for imports. Several prominent trade systems developed that link the empires together in a complex network of exchange that greatly exceeded that of the foundational and River Valley civilizations. Luxury goods and raw materials traveled in caravans and on boats to distant markets. Traveling with them were belief systems, ideas, technology, culture and diseases. Globally, these tranregional networks were limited to Eurasia and Africa in this time period. Trade networks that developed in Oceania and the Americas remained localized for the time being.
- I. Land and water routes became the basis for transregional trade, communication, and exchange networks in the Eastern Hemisphere.