Central Overland Route

Everyone that rode a horse avoided the heavy snow. Pony Bob Halsam was the holder of the record for the longest and fastest run in history on the celebrated run in may 1860,began at friday’s station on the southwest shore of the lake tahoe and took the route to buckland’s station. Having ridden some 190 miles Halsam in the essence turned around and went right back, this time replacing a rider who did not show up and Indians came along the way. In the end he traveled about 360 miles (580) km in 40 hours

out Butterfield Overland and began a new company called Central Overland California and Pikes Express Company, today known as The Pony Express (Rankin, 1996). The Pony Express came to be known as a remarkable national achievement (Rankin, 1996). The riders of the Pony Express had to be slim young men with few or any family. The routes were very dangerous due to ambushes by Indians from time to time. On the dangerous routes, there was no relief waiting at the end of the 25-mile route, so exhausted riders

civilizations in Europe, Africa and Asia during the pre-modern period. Chinese, West Asian and Indian societies were the first ones to develop major transportation networks. A few examples of such important trade routes are The Silk Route, The Trans-Saharan Caravan Trade in Africa and the maritime Spice Route. The Silk Road is the most famous trade network in the world and its complex links across Eurasia is considered the first example of globalization. The network exchanged not only commercial goods but also

brought the old world and the new world together in a way the world had not yet seen. Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 from Europe to what he thought was India, but he “discovered” Central America instead. Though Central America wasn’t the spice filed India that he had hoped for, Central America was filled with resources that spiked European interest such as crops, plants, animals, gold and most importantly potential converts for the Christian faith. Politics During this time, the

ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORLD HISTORY TRADE ROUTES PROJECT Ira Livnat Contents Columbian Exchange 2 Introduction 2 Geography 4 Politics 5 Military 5 Technology 6 Demise 6 Conclusion 7 The Silk Road 8 Introduction 8 Geography 9 Politics 9 Military 10 Technology 11 Columbian Exchange Introduction The Columbian Exchange was a region of trade that occurred during period of biological and cultural exchanges of the Atlantic states. Exchanges of culture, ideas, diseases, slaves and

cover up smuggling routes used to traffic weapons, contraband, illicit drugs and even people. For many years traffickers used boats or submarines to move drug from Colombia to northern Guatemala or Mexico. They did this in order to circumvent a part of Central America, yet with sea patrols improving and new cartels creating competition, smugglers needed to find a new way. So several gangs switched to moving their shipping overland, using Central America as a bridge. The Central American nation is

The original name of the pony express was The Central Overland, California and Pikes Peak Express Company. People needed a fast mail service.The persons who took the mail needed to communicate with the west faster, get across to a 2000 mile trail, and go up mountains and other long parts that was hard for them. That when the pony express began to opened on April 3,1860.the founders of the pony express were William H, Russell, William B, Waddell, and Alexander. At first, mail was carried once a week

Explain the significance of Marco Polo’s voyages to the “East” for our understanding of world history. The silk routes, has for many centuries, connected the world through a series of overland and maritime routes reaching from China, India, the Middle East and Europe. One of the most significant narratives of the voyage is told through Marco Polo, who had a significant impact on the relationship between the east and Europe and on world history. Polo’s voyages vastly enhanced European knowledge about

Before agriculture, early humans lived in small bands and traveled from place to place searching for food. They hunted wild animals and gathered plants for their subsistence, always traveling to a new location once the food in an area was consumed. A shift from foraging to agriculture occurred in certain parts of the world around 10,000 years ago. The origin of agriculture begins in the Near East or Fertile Crescent and gradually spread into the European continent. In Europe, agriculture began in

Americas. The first reason was because after the crusades had failed and Constantinople was taken by the Ottomans in 1453, the overland routes along the Silk Road to the far-east became much more treacherous and expensive for the Western European kingdoms. To overcome this obstacle, the Europeans looked for alternate routes to the orient. The first to use an alternate route were the Portuguese by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope to the various ports in India and beyond. The next kingdom to try