{"id":3097,"date":"2016-10-26T05:14:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T05:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/?page_id=3097"},"modified":"2016-10-26T05:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T05:14:46","slug":"commodities-and-commerce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/learning-pathways\/global-trade-europe-the-middle-east-and-asia\/commodities-and-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodities and commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reading\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_reading.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Read Chapter one of the below volume.  As you read, consider the following questions:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> What commodities were traded during this period?\n<\/li>\n<li> What commodities were desired by Western Europeans?\n<\/li>\n<li> What did they offer merchants in the East in exchange?\n<\/li>\n<li> Was the trade equal, or one-sided?\n<\/li>\n<li> How did trade networks develop over this period?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/eastindiatradein00khanuoft\">Shafaat Khan, <i>The East India Trade in the XVIIth Century: In Its Political and Economic Aspects<\/i>, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923, pp. 1-92.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWere you surprised by the leading commodities traded during this period? Share your thoughts with fellow students on WEnotes below. For example:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <i>The importance of spices &#8230; <\/i>\n<\/li>\n<li> <i>Saltpetre &#8230;<\/i>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><p>You must be logged in to post to WEnotes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><small>(Visit the <a href=\"\/whme101\/interactions\/course-feed\" title=\"World history\/WHME101\/Feed\">course feed<\/a> to read comments from participants)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.030 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.113 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 115\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 806\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 3490\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1870\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:176360-0!*!0!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20161026051442 and revision id 1001707\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/whme101\/learning-pathways\/global-trade-europe-the-middle-east-and-asia\/trading-networks-and-state-monopolies\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/whme101\/learning-pathways\/global-trade-europe-the-middle-east-and-asia\/the-impact-of-british-trade-with-india\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":3091,"menu_order":3800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3097","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3097\/revisions\/3098"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}