Ch. 8- (Commerce and Culture)

In this chapter it mainly focuses on the Silk Roads and what their outcome was across Eurasia. For about 2,000 years, goods, ideas, technologies,and diseases made their way on several routes of the Silk Roads. Trade was very important especially because many goods were being transported through the roads. These land-based trade routes linked pastoral and agricultural peoples as well as the large civilizations on the continents outer rim. The silk road trading network prospered most when large and powerful states provided security for merchants and travelers. The most significant outcome that helped the people in Eurasia was that they learned new things and brought diversity to every culture in Eurasia. Diseases in which people were unfamiliar too were also brought through the Silk Roads, they would spread throughout countries in Eurasia and caused deaths of many people which majorly decreased population in societies. 

Although diseases did kill people, it was also useful especially because gave people an idea of how these people should be cured. This led by having people getting cured with medicines or any other cures that would save their lives and get rid of the diseases people had. Silk roads weren't the only ones that were found but also the sea roads which was oceanic commerced which transformed all of it's participants in one way or another. Lastly the sands roads were another important pattern of long-distance trade network in Eurasia. Overall, these three different types of roads changed peoples' lives tremendously because it brought change to their civilization.