Global Trade
Goods have been moved across continents since antiquity. But where this was previously limited to a set number of routes and and specific goods, such as the manufactured products from India and China finding their way across the Indian Ocean and along the Silk Road, trade is now increasingly becoming part of a greater world network. With the discovery of the Americas, establishment of sea routes around Africa, and the crossing of the Pacific Ocean, local trade networks are being woven into a single, interconnected, world-spanning web.
Silver mined in the Andes is now being shipped via Europe all the way to China and India, Iron mined and wrought in Scandinavia is being sold in Western Africa by English merchants, and others are making a fortune just by distributing Cloth and spices to traders from South East Asia. Merchants in India are even investing in future European trade ventures! It may still be early to speak of a truly global economy, but surely the first seeds have been sown.
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