Exchange Across The Sahara, Nomads, and Christians

I find it fascinating that one of the long distance trade routes was the Sahara...while riding a camel. With this road civilizations in the Mediterranean would be able to own North Africa goods, and vice versa. This route was well known have having merchants of gold but it's main trading good was salt, which the merchants would later be trekking their ways to the transshipment. Slowly caravans came into the picture but this was all to help trade expand further faster. Basically creating the first integrating system of "international commerce", it was no longer a domestic trade.


Moving on to...Nomads.
I knew what a nomad was, but I took them as innocent people just following the beat of their own drum or should I say animals, but learning they were aggressive and extorting China of its goods was definitely a shocker. Nomads thrive off of their livestock. They relied heavily on China's produced agricultural goods such as grains for their livestock. This led to nomads wanting to force their way into China to obtain all the resources they heavily relied on. China continue to hold its forces and used military to fend off the nomads. The nomads weren't grants easy access to pastoral goods again causing anger. I understand where the government is coming from, you can't just demand these things for your own livestock good because you have to consider that these pastoral goods is a good for the civilians of the civilization but then it backfires because the nomads are technically part of the civilization as well.


Christianity slowly expanded throughout the civilizations which had already been preoccupied with Buddhism and Greek philosophy. This religion solely relied on faith and the following of Jesus Christ. Seeing how the Eastern Orthodox Christianity was the biggest influence on Byzantine life in regards to authority and cultural identity reminded of Assyrians. Once Jonah came to Nineveh so many became Christians and to this day people still burn incense thank God for Jonah, and our cultural values and lifestyle are all based on our faith which to be is absolutely amazing considering how many years we've existed. But I also look at us the United States of America, and we too were found based on Christianity which is amazing because not only are our nation's foundation and cultural values based on Christian faith but were built with that instilled in so many households generations to come regardless of political party or ethnicity.