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Certain societies were able to monopolize certain products, for example, silk and certain spices in others nearby. Trading was very important because it often alters consumption and shaped daily life. For West, Africans imported salt which benefited those in the Sahara
Trad alose affected working lives because it encouraged people to specialize in producing certain products. Trade changed the lives of people in many ways.
    But Trade also brought many other things as well like religious ideas, technological innovations, plants, animals, but also disease-bearing germs! The silk road, a network of land-based trades routes was one heavily used. Silk was the one chosen to symbolize this network exchange. Silk was a product that was very important and women were main labor force with homes being the primary textile site. Silk became a symbol of high status and government passed laws that restricted oil clothing only for member of the elite
    Religion also spread across the Silk Roads from India to Central Asia and it picked up elements of other cultures while in transit. Diseases also spread across these trying routes like Smallpox and measles that devised numerous empires. The spread of the Black Death was a result of trading where half of the population in Europe from 1346 to 1348 perished.
Trading also happened at sea with hundreds of ships leaving port filled with goods. The Indian Ocean represented the worlds largest sea-based systems of communication and exchange. The rise of Islan happened because of the Indian Ocean commerce and spread much across the Afro-Eurasian World.

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