Premodern Trade in World History - Richard L. Smith

relationship with authorities 51; Roman
Empire 76; Scythian gold 126; Southeast
Asia 111, 113
trade states 53, 119, 140
tramping 55, 67, 103
Trans-Saharan 138–39, 143
Trans-Sudanic 138
trickle trade 15, 38, 40–41, 137– 38
Tripoli 138
Troy and Trojan War 59– 62
Turkmenistan 34
turquoise 37, 40, 95, 106
Turret-Grave people 101
Tyre 46, 63–64, 66– 67

Ubaid culture 7
Ugarit 46–47, 57–58, 63, 68
Ukraine 21
Uluburun shipwreck 8, 22, 54–55, 61
unguents 8, 56, 64, 71, 90, 92, 106
Ur 29, 32, 35
Ural Mountains 61, 126
Uruk 24, 26, 38
Uzbekistan 34, 127, 133– 34

Vasco da Gama 141
Veneti 69
Vespasian 98
Vietnam and Vietnamese 112, 114– 17
Visigoths 92
votive offerings 8, 15, 69

Wadi Hammamat 42, 45
Wallerstein, Immanuel 5, 7
Wangara 138– 39
war: impact on trade 52–53; 74, 106
weapons and weaponry 25, 47, 60, 69, 126,
128; Bronze Age 17; Egypt export 45;
India export 95; Minoan export 57;

Mycenaean export 58; Neolithic period

16; Rhapta import 103

Wen-Amun 48

wild animals 78

WilusaseeTroy and Trojan War

wine 3, 25, 60; Arabia export 91, 95, 102;

Arabia import 104; Carthage export 66;

East Africa import 103; Egypt export 43;

Egypt import 40; Greece export 71–72,

74, 126; India import 95–96, 106–7;

Massilia export 69; Minoan export 56;

Mycenaean export 58; Phoenician export

47, 64; Roman Empire 76–80, 83

women in trade 112

wood 8, 90, 95, 113; African blackwood

54; Canaanite-Phoenician 46–47; China

122; Egypt 40, 45; Harappans 34;

Persian Gulf 32, 36, 87; Sumer 25;see

alsotimber

wool 29, 63–64, 94, 122

World Systems 5–6, 137, 142

written sources 8– 12

Wusun 127, 130– 32

Xinjiang 111, 122, 127, 134

Xiongnu 127–29,130–31, 133– 35

yaks 121

Yam 43– 44

Yavanas 86, 89, 107– 8

Yemen 40, 49, 87, 100

Yuezhi 127–28,130– 31

Yunnan 112, 123

Zakarbaal 48

Zambezi River and valley 103

Zhang Qian 130–32, 134– 35

Zheng He 140

Zhiayang 116

Zhou dynasty 122– 23

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