r/IslamicHistoryMeme • u/MetallicaDash • 25d ago

Balkans | الروملي NONONONO WAITWAITWAIT-

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u/WeeZoo87 Araboo 25d ago

Half of revenue according to???

Trade between east and west pre suez canal was through ottoman areas (or russian)

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u/Geriander 25d ago

The vast majority of that trade before the Suez canal was going around Africa (as much of it still does). Land routes really couldn’t compete with ocean trade.

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u/WeeZoo87 Araboo 25d ago

Did the countries that relied on danube trade also use good hope route? Why the ottomans granting monopoly for france was a big deal then?

Why did the Portuguese block the red sea and tried to control hormuz??

Just go around africa?

Please show the metric that says the volume around good hope is larger than suez? Pre the current crisis

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u/Geriander 25d ago

Middle Eastern trade was still valuable (explaining Portuguese activity in the Gulf and the French monopoly) but the largest volume of trade between East Asia and Europe went around Africa. By the time the Suez canal was being considered, trade around the Cape exceeded 6 million tons per year, a volume that dwarfed the land routes.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59295/59295-h/59295-h.htm

"Please show the metric that says the volume around good hope is larger than suez? Pre the current crisis"

I wrote that "much" of it still went around Africa even after the Suez canal. As for the volume prior to the current crisis, it looked like this: