Changing Ideas of Culture
Storyboard Description
A showcase of the spread of culture, technology, and goods through trade, as well as trade route locations, and the methods that some travelers used to cross them.
Storyboard Text
- These ones?
- Hey, Akuchi!
- What seems to be the matter, Chukwudi?
- A Desert Caravan Journey
- Let's check those maps of yours!
- Yes!
- The Silk Roads and The Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
- What is it?!
- So.............
- Where exactly are the routes?
- Well......
- What about them, Chukwudi?
- So what about the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes?
- Akuchi!
- These maps show us where the Trans-Saharan trade routes and the Silk Roads are located and where they pass through.
- I'll just spare you the trouble.
- Have you never traveled before?!
- Hold on, I'm getting to that. The Trans-Saharan Trade Routes pretty much link West Africa, North Africa, The Middle East and Southern Europe together.
- The Silk Roads primarily links Eastern Africa, Southern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Southwest Asia.
- Trading With Egypt
- Woah, that really moved me, I'm gonna be a Muslim. Hey, what's your name?
- You may have 5,000 ducks, 2,000 geese, 10,000 tilapia and 10 camels.
- Word of you coming spread quickly. The king has permitted you to trade with us.
- No, I'm not.
- You are the traders from Mali, correct?
- LATER...
- 1 HOUR
- Thanks, but I also have a question. Are you Islamic?
- Alright, how many ducks, geese, tilapia, and camels can we get for ..., ..., and ... pounds of gold and ... pounds of salt?
- Yes, we are traders from Mali.
- Well maybe you should consider switching, because...
- I see that you have come back from trading, what did you trade with the Mali merchants?
- A small caravan is traveling through the Sahara Desert
- The Effects of Trading
- Did I hear you say 100 pounds of gold and 50 pounds of salt?!
- Yes Pharoah. The salt and gold are sitting to my left and right.
- They offered me 100 pounds of gold and 50 pounds of salt, so I gave them 5,000 ducks, 2,000 geese, 10,000 tilapia, and 10 camels.
- Thanks Chukwundi!
- A discussion about the locations of the Silk Road and the Trans Saharan Trade Routes
- A Caravan Journey Through 'The Steppe' ("We're Going To China!")
- So what are we trying to get while we're in China?
- The caravan leader says he wants to get paper, gunpowder, woodblock prints, compasses, and any other goods and inventions he can get his hands on.
- Anytime Akuchi.
- My name is Imhotep. Well anyways, Thank you Enitan.
- A concept of trade and how ideas spread
- Eastern Inventions, Goods, and Ideas and Overpopulation
- You're welcome Imhotep.
- As you can see, we have thrived because of your generosity, and as a thank you for the bananas, I have given you gunpowder, paper, woodblock printing, boat rudders, umbrellas, silk clothing, compasses, a seismograph, oranges, Buddhism lessons and much, much more, they are all in the front of this palace.
- My name is Enitan. What's yours?
- Thank you Emperor Fu, but we have our own goods to give.
- Yes Emperor.
- A concept of how some concepts may spread
- What is "Islam" about?
- We shall try Islam tomorrow and see how the public likes it.
- What else happened?
- [gasp]
- The merchant that offered gold and salt also taught me about a religion called "Islam".
- Islam is a religion that...
- Talk of Chinese inventions and the effects of trade
- Yeah, I wonder what happened after we scattered bananas all across the town? [sigh] But it'll probably be bananas there once we return.
- Remember when we introduced bananas to the Chinese 10 years ago?
- Hey that reminds me...
- Asian inventions, goods, and ideas spread across the Silk Road as well as 'consequences' of trade
- Thank you my lord.
- Alright then, give them to the citizens, authorities, and/or the shopkeepers please.
- My pleasure.
- Here are all of Confucius' teachings.
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