Disruption of Traditional Silk Road and Mediterranean Trade Networks

Global Trade Shifts and Gunpowder Empires (1450–1750)

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Analyze how European maritime routes diverted trade away from overland Eurasian routes and Mediterranean ports, altering the economic power of regional empires.

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Global Trade Shifts and Gunpowder Empires (1450–1750)

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NY-SS

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Examine how transoceanic maritime trade networks, global flows of American silver, chartered joint-stock companies, and gunpowder weapons reoriented global power across Eurasia.

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9.10eNew York Social Studies Standards · 10th Grade

The Eastern Hemisphere trade networks were disrupted by the European development of new transoceanic trade across the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. Shifts in global trade networks and the use of gunpowder had positive and negative effects on Asian and European empires.