Early CrossCultural Contact and Trade

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Early Cross-Cultural Contact and Trade
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Pre-requisites to Cross-Cultural Interaction

• Transportation
• Domesticated pack animals
• Ships
• Need for Trade
• First explorers, probably merchants

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Early Phoenicians

• 1100-800 BCE
• Mediterranean sea routes, colonies
• Circumnavigation of Africa?
• Hanno the Navigator
• Impact
• Alphabet

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The Ancient Silk Roads
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Sampsul Tapestry
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Links between the Old and New Worlds?

• Not impossible in terms of technology, weather
  patterns or currents
• But not much evidence it occurred
• Lack of shared technology
• Lack of shared linguistics?
• Lack of shared culture
• Lack of shared botany

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Early Meso-American Writing Ca 150 AD (Olmec)
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Roman Head? Found near Mexico City, 1933
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Polynesian Contact with the New World?
Sweet potatoes Chickens? Tree resin used to
preserve mummies?
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Norse Contact

• Ca 1000-1350
• Mostly in Northern Greenland
• LAnse aux Medows
• Trade with Dorset and Inuit of North America

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Artifacts from LAnse aux Meadows
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Maine Penny
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Portion of Norse Scale
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Bishop of Baffin
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World System of Trade?

• Obviously not
• No new world BUT
• Fairly wide spread trade
• Interlocking local systems into larger systems
• Increased attempts to cut out middle men
• Eurasian trade system with outliers