History of the Major Trade Routes - Summary on a Map

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  • čas přidán 25. 04. 2024
  • In this video, let's retrace the evolution of the world’s major trade routes, from the Incense Route until today.
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    English translation & voiceover: Matthew Bates www.epicvoiceover.com/
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    Original French version: • L'histoire des routes ...
    Russian version: • История торговых путей...
    Arabic version: • تاريخ أهم طرق التجارة
    Spanish version: • Historia de las rutas ...
    Portuguese version (Brazil): Coming soon
    Japanese version: • 交易路の歴史
    German version: • Die großen Handelsrout...
    Korean version: • 주요 무역로의 역사 - 지도상에서의 역사요약
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    Music: Groove Tube - Audio Hertz (CZcams Library)
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    Software: Adobe After Effects
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    Chapters
    00:00 The Incense Route
    01:03 The Silk Road
    02:19 The Roman Empire
    03:46 Arabs
    05:21 Italian Merchants
    06:36 Sea-Route to India
    07:51 The Manila Galleons
    09:47 Triangular Trade
    11:02 The Industrial Revolution
    12:18 Canals
    13:59 Globalization
    16:18 New Silk Road
    17:54 Current Situation
    #geohistory #history #trade #silkroad

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  • @GeoHistory
    @GeoHistory  Před 2 lety +632

    We’re back! We’ve been hard at work on this video, and we really hope you like it! And also see you soon for the second episode on Russian history.
    By the way, Omar, who was doing the translation and voice-over for the Arabic channel, just started a new channel of short educational videos about history. Please have a look at the channel, and if you like it, don't forget to subscribe!
    czcams.com/channels/ISvlG3-xDBer1WkQugxhTA.html
    Thank you!

  • @sandfordsun4311
    @sandfordsun4311 Před 2 lety +984

    China 2000 years ago: I'll build a silk road
    China today: I'll build a silk road
    China in the future: I'll build a silk road

    • @arthurbriand2175
      @arthurbriand2175 Před 2 lety +111

      But in space this time

    • @proger1960
      @proger1960 Před 2 lety +33

      @@arthurbriand2175
      *Since Ancient Times*

    • @beastdeas7250
      @beastdeas7250 Před 2 lety +33

      The world belongs to the Silk road

    • @Jake-dh9qk
      @Jake-dh9qk Před 2 lety +51

      @@arthurbriand2175 If China makes contact with aliens and builds a silk road to them, the world would just come up with another reason why China is trying to conquer the world by trading with aliens.

    • @retrogamermax8287
      @retrogamermax8287 Před 2 lety +2

      Lol!

  • @lowellfinn
    @lowellfinn Před 2 lety +1168

    When Geo history posted, my day got 1 million times better.

  • @jackin_it
    @jackin_it Před 2 lety +1133

    I’m literally learning about trade routes and connections in my AP World History class, this was perfectly timed.

  • @tijlaerts
    @tijlaerts Před 2 lety +1025

    Sad you didn't spend any time on bronze age tin trading routes.
    Otherwise amazing video!

    • @ShadeStormXD
      @ShadeStormXD Před 2 lety +35

      maybe just not thorough enough information, but i dont recall it even being mentioned

    • @danzoom
      @danzoom Před 2 lety +88

      Same for Scandinavia-Byzantium and amber trade from Baltics to Rome.

    • @harkabirsingh1122
      @harkabirsingh1122 Před 2 lety +58

      @@danzoom that was not a major trade route in the world it was just a major European trade route

    • @reallivingtv1662
      @reallivingtv1662 Před 2 lety +1

      Kernow bys vyken!

    • @octoberviberations233
      @octoberviberations233 Před 2 lety +34

      Same with Native American trade routes

  • @seventhuser904
    @seventhuser904 Před 2 lety +833

    So India and Europe are trading since more than 4000 years... Damn!

    • @Byronic19134
      @Byronic19134 Před 2 lety +117

      Yes so I never understood why India didn't become the world power since they had everything people wanted, and yet from Alexander to Portugal to England they never can beat European powers and stop them from being exploited.

    • @satzchel
      @satzchel Před 2 lety +73

      @TERRY KWAY the mughals were the closest (until modern times) to unite india though?

    • @matpk
      @matpk Před 2 lety +10

      @@Byronic19134 Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist Chinazi IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project. Before it's too late!

    • @arcane3464
      @arcane3464 Před 2 lety +62

      @@kaceobrwa7039 yea bhai, not to mention navigation, medicine, surgery, etc.. these people especially Europeans are living in their own bubble.

    • @donlyemanuel
      @donlyemanuel Před 2 lety +82

      @@kaceobrwa7039 Seems like a massive over reaction my dude. The guy is pretty much crediting India for having *everything everyone wanted* , but still wonders why it didn't become a unified global power. He's not being disrespectful or anything, at least in my opinion.
      Obviously, India was the world's biggest economy until well into the 19th century, if you take into account the fact that the British Raj was its own country and its own economy (and also encompassed more land than modern day India has, but that's almost irrelevant to the subject). Nobody is denying that. It's just amazing how much tribalism can blind us to the point that the world's largest economy would actually end up reduced to a colony because of it.

  • @alexjgilpin
    @alexjgilpin Před 2 lety +622

    0:10 This video completely neglects the *actual* earliest route, that of copper and tin. Copper and tin are not mined any where near each other, but the trade of these two metals is what started the bronze age worldwide.
    Also, the *end of the trade* of copper and tin marked the end of the bronze age (The Bronze Age Collapse) - and people searching for alternatives to bronze led to the start of the iron age.

    • @tonyfriendly4409
      @tonyfriendly4409 Před 2 lety +45

      It's weird to think that you had international trade on that scale in 1600 BC.

    • @alexjgilpin
      @alexjgilpin Před 2 lety +69

      @@tonyfriendly4409 The bronze age started in the western asian/eastern european steppes around 3500BC, and the trade of copper and tin stretched from western Europe (Germany and France had tin) down to Cyprus (which had copper) and Egypt. This is also tied to the spread of the Proto-Indo-European language, which the traders would have spoken.

    • @berkajr3685
      @berkajr3685 Před 2 lety +15

      @@alexjgilpin My friend at the supermarket told me that this is just hearsay and guessing.

    • @justthecoolestdudeyo9446
      @justthecoolestdudeyo9446 Před 2 lety +25

      @@tonyfriendly4409 There's pretty hefty evidence that hunter-gatherers also often had trade routes that were "international" (in quotes because there aren't necessarily nation-states involved). Items are found in campsites that had to be created or obtained hundreds of miles from where they're found. So there was likely trade going way further back than agriculture!

    • @alexjgilpin
      @alexjgilpin Před 2 lety +29

      @@berkajr3685 Thanks for the response. I wanted to speak more about it.
      The bronze age starting around 3500BC isn't hearsay or guessing: There's bronze age artifacts that have been discovered all around the Mediterranean that date back to that time, and the nearest place they could have gotten the tin used in that bronze would have been in western Europe.
      The existence of Proto-Indo-European also is not hearsay or guessing. There's too many cognates among the languages in the area to not all be related to some ancestor. Not everyone agrees on the composition of the PIE language, though.
      "Kurgan theory" is also not hearsay or guessing. That these steppe people, who spread out and likely spoke PIE, lived between the sources of copper and tin during the start of the bronze age is well established. The tin used in the Mediterranean had to travel through these people in order to get to where it was used to make bronze.

  • @Gaming4Justice
    @Gaming4Justice Před 2 lety +105

    Ah the Hanseatic League. The most prosperous time for Estonia. All of our old town date back to that time. All of them built with German architecture, pretty deep inland too. The trade even went through the rivers.

    • @Saiga-saiga
      @Saiga-saiga Před 2 lety +12

      During the Hanseatic League, Estonians were forbidden to visit cities, and the Estonians themselves lived at the level of the tribal system. The Hanseatic League is trade between the main peoples of the then Europe, such as Poles, Germans and Russians. I would not say that it was the best time for Estonia, because no one took into account the opinion of local residents. And even now, however.

    • @J3n50
      @J3n50 Před rokem +3

      @@Saiga-saiga Guess we're gonna have to backdate our golden era of trade back 5000 years to trading amber to the pharaohs

  • @gavinm1347
    @gavinm1347 Před 2 lety +164

    Literally what I’m learning in College Right now!

  • @theeditzofmanoo3886
    @theeditzofmanoo3886 Před 2 lety +81

    Now I truly know why they say Egypt has an amazing geographic place

    • @thisismacom3723
      @thisismacom3723 Před 2 lety +5

      Too bad they can't make it "Green". Right Libya, Libya?

    • @afdalridwan3813
      @afdalridwan3813 Před 2 lety

      @@thisismacom3723 Gaddafi do you mean?

    • @bigchungus6320
      @bigchungus6320 Před 2 lety +5

      Yes it is a good placement in Africa and the Mediterranean sea but for me the best geographic and geopolitical placement is Mesopotamia (Iraq today) because it links both Europe Africa and Asia it is like in the middle of the eastern hemisphere

    • @zombieat
      @zombieat Před 2 lety +8

      @@bigchungus6320 egypt is the closest country to being a tricontinental country in the world connecting africa west of the suez canal to asia east of the canal through 5 tunnels and 2 bridges and europe to the northwest of the canal through the mediterranean sea.

    • @georgeheld1901
      @georgeheld1901 Před 2 lety +3

      Well not really, as it has lead to them being conquered by some empire or other for the past 2000 years

  • @rags417
    @rags417 Před 2 lety +60

    "Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria..."
    Which one ?

    • @llamingo696
      @llamingo696 Před 2 lety +17

      Yes

    • @josephiroth89
      @josephiroth89 Před 2 lety +2

      @@llamingo696 ... except the ones in Canada, Australia, Brazil, Jamaica, the US, South Africa, Scotland, Poland, Bulgaria, and Ukraine.

    • @edwardofgreene
      @edwardofgreene Před 2 lety +4

      The one that survived. Name enough cities after yourself, and maybe one is bound to make it.

    • @josephiroth89
      @josephiroth89 Před 2 lety +3

      @@edwardofgreene There are still a handful of places that were named (or renamed) Alexandria that still have cities surviving on those sites. Some still bear the name (Iskenderun in modern-day Turkey for example), others not (Herat and Kandahar in Afghanistan).

    • @EquinoxProduction
      @EquinoxProduction Před 2 lety

      good question

  • @enricofreddo3837
    @enricofreddo3837 Před 2 lety +115

    It's nice to see that this video ends in the present, 2021, it makes me feel like we are actually living the history and we're part of it!

    • @vendomnu
      @vendomnu Před 2 lety

      You are living in the beginning of the end of 'The Medical Tyranny'.

    • @Timur_Alma-ata
      @Timur_Alma-ata Před rokem +3

      I have this feeling too. Imho present days are more interesting than history.

    • @harukrentz435
      @harukrentz435 Před rokem +1

      Mate we are indeed living in the history.

    • @understanding.everything
      @understanding.everything Před 6 měsíci

      Because we are

  • @commandergree68
    @commandergree68 Před 2 lety +206

    I imagine the story goes something like this:
    Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict....

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 Před 2 lety +3

      Tell me, did you ever inform yourself about the so-called 'Satanic Panic'?
      If not, how about 'Prism of the Past; Satanic Panic' of 'Illuminatinaughtii' tells you about it real quick?

    • @rajcr877
      @rajcr877 Před 2 lety +10

      @@slevinchannel7589 what was that

    • @JoeTheBroken
      @JoeTheBroken Před 2 lety +9

      You call this a diplomatic solution?

    • @vendomnu
      @vendomnu Před 2 lety +5

      Now there's two of them.
      This is getting out of hand!

    • @PedroOrtega1993
      @PedroOrtega1993 Před rokem +1

      @Atheist Biologist Droid: "E Chuta!"

  • @abhinavkp7216
    @abhinavkp7216 Před 2 lety +63

    Muziris on the first trade route is 10 miles from my place. It lost its importance in the floods of 1341Now the place is known as Kodungallur Another port formed as a result of the floods and today it is one of the major ports in India called cochin

  • @noahkidd3359
    @noahkidd3359 Před 2 lety +69

    Excellent video! Really demonstrates how important the factor of trade has been throughout world history.

  • @cushconsultinggroup
    @cushconsultinggroup Před 2 lety +9

    Literally a “follow the money trail” informational video, which gives great insight.

  • @Elderrion
    @Elderrion Před 2 lety +114

    13:06 oh, hey, they labelled the congo as the property of Leopold II. That's surprising. I mean, it's factual, but it's rare to see attention to such a small detail. Would've been easier to label it as Belgian, if slightly inaccurate.

    • @yoshi_ninja0533
      @yoshi_ninja0533 Před 2 lety +7

      I’m kind of slow, but why is is that way? Was the land gifted/given to just him instead of the country of Belgium?

    • @Trans_SovietBee
      @Trans_SovietBee Před 2 lety +49

      Because Leopold took Congo as his personal possession, free to do whatever he wants to the place and the people that lives there. Simply to say if you control a land as you then you are free to do whatever you wish to that land... which he did, very brutally and because of him many people died in what is known the Congo genocide

    • @yoshi_ninja0533
      @yoshi_ninja0533 Před 2 lety +14

      @@Trans_SovietBee Ok that makes sense, thank you for the info! Now I’m going to take a solid 3 seconds in honor of the people who died in the Congo Genocide

    • @afdalridwan3813
      @afdalridwan3813 Před 2 lety +7

      @@yoshi_ninja0533 the times that disgusting person cut off 5 mil congo's people hands

    • @nataliekennedy4646
      @nataliekennedy4646 Před 2 lety +7

      And he did horrible things to the native people there and they all ready had a kingdom there but then Belgium took it over

  • @McDaddySkater
    @McDaddySkater Před 2 lety +15

    I never got such a perfect rundown of how trade became what it is now, great video! If I was a teacher I would be showing these to my classes

  • @Eldred15
    @Eldred15 Před 2 lety +54

    I love how on the colonial map of Africa it says "Leopold II" instead of Belgium for the area encompassing the Congo. The colony was his private territory, but it still gave me a good chuckle, because all the other territories are owned by countries.

    • @awpimawpimawpaajd4176
      @awpimawpimawpaajd4176 Před 2 lety +2

      How's that funny

    • @jessef9041
      @jessef9041 Před rokem +10

      One can only laugh to keep from crying

    • @yonas2828
      @yonas2828 Před rokem +1

      Not all, Ethiopia was never owned by anyother but by Ethiopian. 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 independent country for more than 3000 years

    • @najibuchica9930
      @najibuchica9930 Před rokem +5

      @@yonas2828 Italy conquered for a time though

    • @BrazilianImperialist
      @BrazilianImperialist Před rokem

      @@yonas2828 With Russian aid it gets easy

  • @AnjumulHaque
    @AnjumulHaque Před 2 lety +130

    Thanks for this. People only focus on single known routes that are stuck in people's consciousness like the Silk road between China and Europe or the Spice Route after Europe founded ways to America and Asia, forgetting that there were other trade routes equally important.

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar Před 2 lety +7

      Rahid Hoque
      Alexander set out to conquer the world, that ends in the east, in India (of course, he couldn't enter India). He (nor his Guru, Aristotle) knew of the existence of China then. A few centuries later the "Yuechi" tribe became the most powerful people in central Asia. China was made to take note of them & contain them if possible. The Yuechi, led by Kanishka founded a big Empire in Central Asia, half of which extended to the banks of Yamuna River (India). Silk route to Europe, "per se", began a millennium after Alexander & was acknowledged of its existence with the great explorer/travellor, Marco Polo (1254-1324).

    • @BrazilianImperialist
      @BrazilianImperialist Před rokem +1

      He did not even talk about a lot of trade routes and the video has a lot of misinformation

    • @BrazilianImperialist
      @BrazilianImperialist Před rokem

      @@MrPoornakumar Greeks knew chinaese as sericites

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar Před rokem +1

      @@BrazilianImperialist
      since when?

    • @BrazilianImperialist
      @BrazilianImperialist Před rokem

      @@MrPoornakumar search sericites

  • @indianinja420
    @indianinja420 Před 2 lety +91

    Hey this is a great video! I would have loved if you highlighted more about how Indian/Tibetan/Southeast pre colonial politics affected trade in the in the region. Players like the Chola creating a merchant guild in South India and the East Indias, Tibetan Empire wrestling with the Silk road going toe to toe with China and linking overland trade between India and China through the Himalayas, or the Majapahit of the Javanese in modern Indonesia who locked down all east Indies trade and was was a economic juggernaut at it's zenith.

    • @oblati
      @oblati Před 2 lety +9

      Or the trade with the Makassar and Yolgnu in Sea cucumbers that stretched from Norther Australia to Southern China. I would also have loved to see the trade routes of pre-Columbian America covered and the Micronesian/Filipino/Okinawan trade

    • @tvrulz46
      @tvrulz46 Před rokem +6

      And the trade of the Polynesian triangle as well as the long distance networks through to Hawaii and Easter island along with the Austronesian trade that extended through Sri Lanka, the Seychelles and on to Madagascar

    • @markjosephbacho5652
      @markjosephbacho5652 Před rokem +3

      Or how the trading kingdoms in the eastern branch of Maritime Silk Road (Philippines and Borneo) rose in prominence during the Yuan Dynasty since the western trunk (mainland southeast asia) suffered disturbances during the Mongol military campaigns in the 1280s to 1300s.
      --
      This is something that is least studied and given focus.

    • @shashwatsinha2704
      @shashwatsinha2704 Před rokem

      Agree

  • @skeletonminer5221
    @skeletonminer5221 Před 2 lety +46

    Thanks so much, this helped me a lot to study for my exams. Continue the hard work

  • @marianchicago4002
    @marianchicago4002 Před 2 lety +28

    This explains so much about human history and it's conflicts.

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 Před 2 lety +2

      @Complex CR War breaks out whenever trade collapses.

  • @zarketlarket9625
    @zarketlarket9625 Před 2 lety +12

    Hey there, I would just like to let you know that your content has aided me greatly in explaining the history of the world to my peers in University, I often show your videos (with credit to you of course cited) and it gets people who would not be interested in comprehending or learning about history involved with it. Your illustrated maps have proven great maps in terms of understanding the history of regions

  • @davexx5351
    @davexx5351 Před 2 lety +154

    When geo history uploads, it's like the world is saved again from death by screaming youtubers

    • @immigrantgaming420epic
      @immigrantgaming420epic Před 2 lety +3

      When you stop spamming copied comments, it will be like the world is saved again from death

    • @davexx5351
      @davexx5351 Před 2 lety +3

      @@immigrantgaming420epic i didnt actuallycopy it :l

    • @afdalridwan3813
      @afdalridwan3813 Před 2 lety

      @@immigrantgaming420epic go away to your mom, this wasn't cringey elitist reddit that no one have to copied comment, that wasn't ilegal thing to copied comment so shut UP!

    • @immigrantgaming420epic
      @immigrantgaming420epic Před 2 lety

      @@afdalridwan3813 it's annoying

    • @afdalridwan3813
      @afdalridwan3813 Před 2 lety

      @@immigrantgaming420epic only for you

  • @underthetable2747
    @underthetable2747 Před 2 lety +16

    a train route between China and North America is something i’ve never considered; but now I am very interested in the idea.

    • @redhongkong
      @redhongkong Před rokem

      it will never happen, politician doesnt allow it (they see china and russia as threats), harsh temperature doesnt allow it(tunnel are expensive, exposed rail will expand/contract frequently). north american doesnt have money for it (american owe huge debt they can not afford anything like this).

    • @est9949
      @est9949 Před rokem

      @@redhongkong China and Russia ARE threats, and I am saying this as a person in Asia. China, the dictator Xi and his friends--not the Chinese people themselves, have been interfering with Asian politics against the will of our people. Most people in my country loathe Xi Jinping's messing up with our country.

    • @est9949
      @est9949 Před rokem

      Everyone please look up milk tea alliance hashtag. India, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, and many in Indonesia want Xi Jinping to stop messing up with our continent. Please support #MilkTeaAlliance everyone who cares about human rights and world peace should educate themselves on this topic 🙏

    • @oblivion5390
      @oblivion5390 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@redhongkong economy triumphs. china, despite being USA's number one rival manufactures most of their goods. if the train route promises profit, the businessmen would find ways to get it working despite ideological and political clashes.

    • @fargr5926
      @fargr5926 Před 8 dny

      Just a wild dream. Ocean shipment is much cheaper.

  • @toddmccormick1509
    @toddmccormick1509 Před 2 lety +2

    This is the best channel ever, it’s like you read my thoughts, knew exactly what I wanted to know, and then made a video about it

  • @pancen2799
    @pancen2799 Před 2 lety +3

    This is amazing. So much info, simply presented, ties a lot of things together.

  • @thegreenrenegade7759
    @thegreenrenegade7759 Před 2 lety +7

    I love how in the scramble for Africa area it lists every nation, and then just lists leopold II.

    • @mxn1948
      @mxn1948 Před 2 lety

      that's because the others are territories of their respective empires, while the congo was the personal territory of leopold II and not subject to Belgium government laws.

    • @Gameflyer001
      @Gameflyer001 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mxn1948 that was until 1908, when Belgium forcibly took control over the territory from their king, having been forced to act after the many reports of atrocities that were taking place there.

  • @codysodyssey3818
    @codysodyssey3818 Před 2 lety +5

    This is the stuff i love to learn about. I've developed a reputation for being a Trade Whore whenever i play grand strategy games with my friends (Civ VI in particular). My only problem with this video is that it's only 20 minutes. I could listen to this for hours. (If anyone has any suggestions for podcasts please tell me).

  • @Reis59452
    @Reis59452 Před 2 lety +2

    That's the best video on this topic that I've ever see!! This topic of ancient trade and finance is really fascinating...

  • @TheFBIorange
    @TheFBIorange Před 7 měsíci +1

    One of the most informative videos I've seen in a long time. So many things in history make much more sense when thought of in these terms.

  • @lemonfresh1135
    @lemonfresh1135 Před 2 lety +3

    Brilliantly concise yet very informative. Nice Job :D

  • @BirdPowerHistory
    @BirdPowerHistory Před 2 lety +4

    Instant like as soon as Geo History posts a video, love your content.

  • @markospap92
    @markospap92 Před rokem +2

    I'm stunned from your video. WOW!
    You have done a really good work. Facts, animations and the overall script is amazing. Thank you!!!

  • @SrSam16
    @SrSam16 Před 2 lety +4

    Bonus piece of information: most of the colombian cocaine enters Europe through Galicia, Spain. Great video!

  • @simonjames9481
    @simonjames9481 Před 2 lety +4

    I'm glad you mention the Manila Galleons

  • @Wertul
    @Wertul Před rokem +3

    We are doing a unit on trade routes for my world history class right now, so this is very helpful.

  • @brainmachine235
    @brainmachine235 Před rokem +3

    Feb. 3, 2023
    I landed here after studying Shanxi in China and its Horse Tea Road section of the trade routes. This section connected to what is today’s Myanmar, etc.
    Aside from the actual hostel that’s several hundred years old and still in operation(!) the village and its environs has maintained much of what was created over the dynasties.
    The village also exists as a reenactment of history, eg, preparing and serving the foods that were being eaten by the traders.
    A mindblower: The book chain Librairie Avant Garde in Nanjing opened a fabulous modernistic bookstore nearby, with an emphasis on poetry. The flight of stairs leading to “the poetry tower” is awesome. (I’m not particularly into poetry but I was tickled by spotting a photo on the upper staircase of American poet and author Sylvia Plath. (The Bell Jar is a must read.) Had she known that her work was to be revered in today’s China, perhaps she wouldn’t have committed suicide during her failing marriage to UK poet Ted Hughes.)

  • @gyandeepchauhan1272
    @gyandeepchauhan1272 Před 2 lety +44

    Pliny the Elder, in 77 CE, called India “the sink of the world's gold!”

    • @enrico7474
      @enrico7474 Před 2 lety +9

      India in some cases referred to area streching from the horn of africa to the indian subcontinent so yeah an area that big probably has much gold
      North indian and axumite Ethiopian gold coins had the highest gold quantity in them even when their empires were collapsing and coin minting started to decline their coins still had more gold quantity than any roman,persian or greek coin, they were considered tokens instead of regular coins for outsiders so that assumption is perfectly explainable

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar Před 2 lety +12

      gyandeep chauhan
      Till 1800 every diamond worn by anyone in the world came from India. In medieval times, the kingdom of Golconda (Golconda fort is now part of Hyderabad city) became the supplier & trading center for diamonds, which were surface-mined along the banks of Krishna River (in Kolluru, Paritala villages & a few more).

    • @SputnikRX
      @SputnikRX Před 7 měsíci

      Diamonds were not nearly as popular as jewellery in the ancient and medieval period of Europe as they are now.

  • @Murf_Workshop
    @Murf_Workshop Před 2 lety +6

    I wish I would've have has a reference like this in my AP World history class, I learn much quicker visually than I do just from text but that does not mean I neglect the text. This would have helped me better understand the sequentially the empires and trade that came and went that way I could have pieced things together faster. It's missing some earlier trade routes but overall very Well done.

  • @mincansebastian3932
    @mincansebastian3932 Před 2 lety +6

    Why this video is so good is not just for infographics but also telling world-scale history. It is hard to teach world history in 20min like this.

  • @Thomas194.
    @Thomas194. Před 2 lety +1

    When Geo uploaded video, my knowlegde about history is wider every time.

  • @edigeyolchannel7177
    @edigeyolchannel7177 Před rokem +3

    Thank you for teaching me lots of new things that I have heard it for the first time, that I had never heard them during my schooling yeara. Wondeeful videos.

  • @Omegatonboom
    @Omegatonboom Před 2 lety +4

    I just learned so much. Thank you!

  • @robws007
    @robws007 Před rokem +4

    This CZcams channel is top notch, really well done videos!

  • @OweEyeSea
    @OweEyeSea Před rokem

    The quality of the videos on this channel is impressive. I've watched some of these more than once.

  • @manooxi327
    @manooxi327 Před 2 lety

    The voice is very comforting and the visuals are very simple yet satisfying
    I love the channel
    Great topic

  • @gijsv8419
    @gijsv8419 Před 2 lety +22

    The Prehistorian trade routes are not discussed. For instance the production of Bronze was only possible by supply from different source far away from each other.
    The Hansetic network was larger as stated here. In the East Netherlands several cities were part of it, and till at least 1700 it was active.
    What I noticed that in Europe the hub cities became extremily rich.

  • @enqrbit
    @enqrbit Před rokem +8

    Thank you for including Adulis and the Aksumite Empire. Eritrean history often gets overlooked despite its strategic importance in economic history.

  • @chrisdab-
    @chrisdab- Před 2 lety +6

    This video is useful in understanding war and geopolitics. thanks

  • @odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347
    @odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347 Před 2 lety +12

    I’m always fascinated by the trade throughout history! This helped greatly!

  • @Chris.starfleet
    @Chris.starfleet Před 2 lety +8

    I'm a grade 7 History teacher. This video explains it far better than I can. It is not directly required by my curriculum to teach this, but I still tell them about, what is explained in this video, as background information. This video make it so much easier.

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 Před 2 lety

      Tell me, did you ever inform yourself about the so-called 'Satanic Panic'?
      If not, how about 'Prism of the Past; Satanic Panic' of 'Illuminatinaughtii' tells you about it real quick?

  • @scubardiveshop1389
    @scubardiveshop1389 Před 2 lety +3

    I love your videos. Well done once again!!!

  • @JoaooAE
    @JoaooAE Před 2 lety +1

    When Goe history posted, My day got 1 million times better

  • @jello5303
    @jello5303 Před rokem +3

    I just learned an entire semester in 19 mins! Amazing video, sad that Carthage and the Phoenicians weren’t mentioned, still amazing!

  • @falcvo9
    @falcvo9 Před 2 lety +9

    Whenever Geo History posts its like a praise from the above to this world

  • @josipvran
    @josipvran Před 2 lety +3

    That was such a good summary!

  • @propagandabrot1601
    @propagandabrot1601 Před 2 lety +1

    You really saved my "History of globalisation" presentation assignement for school thank you so much

  • @JWentu
    @JWentu Před 2 lety +2

    Amazingly well done!

  • @M.sami12
    @M.sami12 Před 2 lety +7

    Interesting to see india and arabia were the first people to ever trade and have modernized economy.

  • @CheesiusCaesar69
    @CheesiusCaesar69 Před 2 lety +76

    So by the Treaty of Tordesillas, The whole Iberian Peninsula should have been portugese anyway

    • @ShadeStormXD
      @ShadeStormXD Před 2 lety +2

      🤣🤣

    • @untitledjuan2849
      @untitledjuan2849 Před 2 lety +21

      The Treaty applied only to newly discovered land, everything that was already claimed by European countries before the treaty couldn't be claimed by Spain or Portugal, regardless of its location at either side of the line

    • @TheGreatCooLite
      @TheGreatCooLite Před 2 lety +12

      @@untitledjuan2849 If i recall correctly they also couldnt claim land that had a Christian population

    • @yeeyee5057
      @yeeyee5057 Před 2 lety +2

      @@TheGreatCooLite well the treaty was certified by the pope. Those Iberians better convert them to Christianity

    • @puljz8551
      @puljz8551 Před 2 lety

      that treaty lasted less than a century lol

  • @TheOnly1brenna
    @TheOnly1brenna Před rokem +1

    Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for these videos

  • @themicki8032
    @themicki8032 Před 2 lety

    My heart jumped a beat when I saw that there was a new video by Geo History.

  • @danielovercash1093
    @danielovercash1093 Před 2 lety +12

    IT HAS BEEN MONTHS... How dare you keep us up at all hours, wondering if you were ok... Anything could have happened to you!

  • @Rawarart
    @Rawarart Před rokem +4

    i love that you didnt mention anything about malacca and nusantara. the source of spice and important trade route between arabian peninsula, india and china. portuguese conquering malacca, dutch creating voc. that sounds major to me

  • @yunglordz5907
    @yunglordz5907 Před rokem +1

    Love the history, having a clearer perspective of what really happened that lead up to the time we currently live 🧐

  • @localTechno
    @localTechno Před 2 lety +1

    Nice video Well done storytelling by the narrator, great work:)

  • @ookayokay
    @ookayokay Před 2 lety +7

    Zhang Qian actually wasnt improsined 14 years only. He escaped the Xiongnu fortress, did his mission, moved back and had to enter Xiongnu regions again and.. was captured again.. and escaped again with his wife who was a Xiongnu woman, til he finally approached his homeland.. again.

  • @aquamarine99911
    @aquamarine99911 Před 2 lety +5

    It's curious how the Opium Wars are entirely disregarded here.
    Someone below has mentioned the Europe-wide trade in copper and tin going on between Mycenae, Egypt and other Bronze age civilizations before the collapse in ~1200 BC.

    • @douzigege
      @douzigege Před 2 lety

      cuz humans are biased at various levels, intentionally or unintentionally.

  • @juhasilvennoinen7154
    @juhasilvennoinen7154 Před rokem +1

    Fantastic presentation. Ties up many development driving forces into an one clear picture

  • @NostalgiacDeath
    @NostalgiacDeath Před 2 lety +2

    this was a lot more interesting than anticipated

  • @iamgreat1234
    @iamgreat1234 Před 2 lety +8

    In 1511, Melaka city in Malaysia has 200,000 people according to Portuguese record which equate one fifth of Portugal (1 million people).

    • @diogorodrigues747
      @diogorodrigues747 Před 2 lety +3

      The Portuguese empire was huge for the size of the population. In fact, that is one reason why the empire was more about trade than territory, the main reason why, in the Iberian Union, most territories were lost to the British or Dutch.

    • @alinabintang1642
      @alinabintang1642 Před 4 měsíci

      Perkiraan tertinggi sekitar 100 rb..
      Beberapa sumber mengatakan antara 30.000-40.000 pada masa itu sudah termasuk kota pelabuhan yang besar..
      Sebagai perbandingan Demak yang merupakan ibukota kerajaan hanya memiliki antara 8.000-10.000 keluarga, silahkan diasumsikan bila tiap-tiap keluarga memiliki anggota keluarga antara 4 sampai 5 orang..
      Pada abad ke 16 di estimasi penduduk Indonesia sekitar 8 juta jiwa..
      Bandingkan dengan Malaysia pada saat kemerdekaan hanya memiliki populasi sekitar 8 juta jiwa.
      Bayangkan tanpa migrasi besar penduduk india dan china saat itu, berapa populasi malaka..

  • @dbe471
    @dbe471 Před 2 lety +3

    I don't know if anyone reads these comments. Anyway I just found your channel and this is an excellent video. Thank you.

  • @cnsrvtv13
    @cnsrvtv13 Před 2 lety +1

    It's a very interested and useful channel. Thanks very much 💕

  • @muhamadazrinasat3611
    @muhamadazrinasat3611 Před 2 lety

    This is so brilliantly done that I automatically subscribed.

  • @usazach9796
    @usazach9796 Před 2 lety +6

    You know its a good day when Geo History posts

  • @patricksicilia8888
    @patricksicilia8888 Před 2 lety +11

    Thanks for pronouncing route as root. Make this video much more enjoyable to watch :)

    • @Altermerea
      @Altermerea Před 2 lety +3

      I hear it pronounced more often as 'root' than 'rawt' tbh.

  • @Aeroplane.blu44
    @Aeroplane.blu44 Před 2 lety +1

    FINALLY! NOW MY DAY CAN GET BETTER!

  • @agakarimshah6416
    @agakarimshah6416 Před 2 lety +1

    Made my day after a long time

  • @131alexa
    @131alexa Před 2 lety +19

    12:30 The ancient Suez canal = Canal of the Pharaohs.
    That's fascinating! You could have mentioned it earlier in the video as an ancient trade route.

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar Před 2 lety +4

      131alexa
      A canal was dug from the bitter lakes (through which the present Suez canal passes) to one of the distributaries (Nile delta) of River Nile. That way, boats can reach the Mediterranean from Red Sea. Ingenious !

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 Před 2 lety

      The current Suez canal is at least the third one. There was also one during the late stone age.

    • @wellingtonokuku415
      @wellingtonokuku415 Před 2 lety

      That would mean giving credit to africa, I don't think that will fit in nicely to his Agenda. The neglect of Africa which is the oldest continent is just shocking. To think that Africa had no trade Route but built the pyramid.

  • @iox1212
    @iox1212 Před 2 lety +32

    Can you guys do a video about the history of the Roman Empire? It would be vero cool in my opinion

    • @SafavidAfsharid3197
      @SafavidAfsharid3197 Před 2 lety +13

      Aren't there thausands of videos already about them?

    • @iox1212
      @iox1212 Před 2 lety +4

      @@SafavidAfsharid3197 yes but there was also many video about ww2 ww1 and Napoleon so the Roman history Is a Classic like those things

  • @daniel-ni4gb
    @daniel-ni4gb Před 2 lety

    been waiting for your vid!

  • @andierothschild8218
    @andierothschild8218 Před 2 lety +2

    Really good video showing the importance of trade in history., Kudos

  • @apkhackwithpc2
    @apkhackwithpc2 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Great video, India called as golden bird in ancient times and during the time of gupta empire, India's gdp had shares of 35% in total world gdp, and the fact is no one empire ever achieved this much percentage in global gdp but cuz of rich region, it attracts many invaders and india got looted over time, and now the countries of those invaders like UK, France etc and mostly whole europe calls india as a poor nation and also say that india never got rich in past, so yeah it hurts when people forgets history

  • @LOL-cv9it
    @LOL-cv9it Před 2 lety +3

    It’s really interesting that trade that time took time and need precision.

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar Před 2 lety

      LOL
      It is how humans discovered navigation that evolved to the present precise Science. It is how Geography evolved. Static peope shut in their home-territories (not crossing the seas) can't achieve it. Before Chris Columbus nobody had any idea of an Ocean, much less crossing one. All boats (ships) sailed within the viewing distance from a land, close to the coast. He was the first to cross an Ocean (3600 miles across), charting it & bringing knowledge that none had before. There is no way one can measure a "longitude" except by an accurate clock (Chronometer) which shows the time of the port where the ship sailed from, so as to compare the time the ship is on, from Sun's position (morning, noon or afternoon). Thus, clocks became necessary & vital. It is how modern Sciences developed !

  • @braylonbenjamin3529
    @braylonbenjamin3529 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for your time you never fail to please us

  • @goodlawyer1813
    @goodlawyer1813 Před 3 měsíci

    This timeline connected a lot of dots for me. Well done.

  • @CliffCardi
    @CliffCardi Před 2 lety +24

    I can’t believe you left out Portuguese arms dealers in Japan during the Sengoku Jiddai.

    • @CutieZalbu
      @CutieZalbu Před rokem +2

      Bruh there’s on so much you can do when you’re talking about the macro version of history! If he was talking about micro history and going into detail then we’d be sitting here all day

  • @saul100emperorofthegoldene8

    Pls Make a Video Of The Full History Of China Pls

  • @optorch131
    @optorch131 Před 2 lety +1

    Fascinating video.
    Thank you

  • @underwood9584
    @underwood9584 Před 2 lety +1

    CZcams has become the best learning academy ever

  • @marcustulliuscicero5443
    @marcustulliuscicero5443 Před 2 lety +12

    The Manila Galleons would actually turn out disastrous for the Ming eventually. All taxes in China had to be paid in silver, yet with the massive growth of the Chinese economy the modest domestic silver production had long stopped being sufficient. The Spanish, finding themselves owning an excess of silver, were a godsend. Unfortunately, Ming never took any steps to ensure that the Chinese economy could survive if the influx of Potosi silver ever stopped.
    When the Silver trade declines in the early 17th century, it proved a disaster for China that would eventually lead to the end of the Ming dynasty.

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 Před 2 lety

      It was also disastrous for Spain.

    • @widodoakrom3938
      @widodoakrom3938 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Yes hyperinflation caused by oversupply of silver in 16-17 century

  • @legohistorytube.3148
    @legohistorytube.3148 Před 2 lety +5

    Could you make a video on the Colonization of Oceania(Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific)/My other Suggestion is a video on the History of the Celts(Manly since most of my Ancestors were Celts themselves)

  • @MrBumbo90
    @MrBumbo90 Před 2 lety

    amazing video. Really underrated.

  • @jordi6795
    @jordi6795 Před 2 lety

    Amazing video and explanation, thumbs up in all senses! 👍👍👏👏👏👏

  • @thepenguin..
    @thepenguin.. Před 2 lety +6

    Thx for posting this, it’s going to help me through ap class

    • @auglazeallday5335
      @auglazeallday5335 Před 2 lety

      AP Class?

    • @awesome_barabado
      @awesome_barabado Před 2 lety

      @@auglazeallday5335 idk but in Philippines, AP is an abbreviation for 'Araling Panlipunan' which is 'Social Studies' so maybe that..

    • @auglazeallday5335
      @auglazeallday5335 Před 2 lety

      @@awesome_barabado Good to know.... here in the States it means anatomy and physiology in school terms.

    • @thepenguin..
      @thepenguin.. Před 2 lety

      @@auglazeallday5335 high school ap world history

  • @niceguy2568
    @niceguy2568 Před 2 lety +9

    You guys are amazing, keep posting and sometimes give us a brief history or detailed one about India as well, much love for Karachi, Sindh

  • @shashidharshettar3846
    @shashidharshettar3846 Před 2 lety +1

    First time I ever understood the trade routes thank you Sooooooo much

  • @hunterschill961
    @hunterschill961 Před rokem

    This was literally the most interesting this I’ve seen in years