Trade Networks and Connectivity Across the Americas
Explore the intricate trade networks and cultural exchanges that existed throughout the Americas pre-Columbus. Discover the limitations and interactions between regions, from the Great Lakes to the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. Uncover the goods exchanged, the unique features of each network, and the role of major civilizations like the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas in facilitating trade.
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An American Network: Commerce and Connection in the Western Hemisphere Strayer: Ways of the World Chapter 8
There was no sustained interaction between the Western and Eastern hemispheres before the voyages of Columbus
American trade networks were not as dense as Afro-Eurasian ones 1. important limitations: lack of domesticated large mammals, wheeled vehicles, large oceangoing ships geographical or environmental obstacles, including north/south orientation 2. local and regional commerce flourished, but not long-distance trade 3. cultural traditions did not spread as widely as in Eastern Hemisphere a. b.
But there was a loosely interactive web from the Great Lakes to the Andes 1. cultural elements spread gradually 2. evidence of at least indirect contact 3. Cahokia was at center of a widespread trading network 4. Chaco canyon culture also interacted with Mesoamerica
But there was a loosely interactive web from the Great Lakes to the Andes 5. Amazon and Orinoco river exchange networks 6. Caribbean peoples conducted interisland trade 7. Chincha people traded along Pacific coast of South America
There was a major trade network in Mesoamerica 1. Maya and Teotihuac n traded by land 2. Maya traded by sea on both coasts (with dugout canoes) 3. Aztecs of fifteenth century had professional merchants (pochteca)
What was exchanged throughout the Americas? What didnt travel from South America to North America?
There was a major state-run trade network in the Andes
What goods might have traveled on the Inca Roads?
Premodern networks had important differences from modern ones 1. most people still produced for their own consumption 2. a much smaller range of goods was exchanged 3. far fewer wageworkers 4. trade was in luxury goods 5. circuits of commerce were more limited 6. had no single center; units were much more equivalent
