POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Policy, Social Inequality, Social Fund
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Week 7: p re colonial s ocieties and the impact of coloniz ation. T rading e mpires with c omplex a dmin. Africa: from 1083 , trade expanded between africa and china and this trade was g uided by a number of african empires e. x s liver and g old throug h mozambique. Als o trade with africa, india, and arab -> ivory and minerals exported from africa and other g oods like textiles imported. T hus cons iderable degree of long dis tance trade. K atang a ( modern day d r c ), s ophis ticated trading empire that imported copper to aria and india. Mexico ( aztec) trade throug h central america. India: world bigges t exporter of textiles , china: all thes e developed trading empires and a number of them had the bas is of indus trial developments. S oc ieties with s ig nific ant t ec h, a d vanc es.
