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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn3e37VWc0k Jun 3, 2014 With modern technology, a global exchange of goods and ideas can happen at the click of a button. But what about 2,000 years ago? Shannon Harris Castelo unfolds the history of the 5,000-mile Silk Road, a network of multiple routes that used the common language of commerce to connect the world's major settlements, thread by thread. Lesson by Shannon Harris Castelo, animation by Steff Lee. TEDEd View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-silk-road-history-s-first-world-wide-web-shannon-harris-castelo
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https://www.focus-economics.com/blog/the-largest-economies-in-the-world shares information about this 2019 data.
https://otexa.trade.gov/Pdfs/SylviaMontano.pdf May 1, 2023 "U.S. Commercial Service in Mexico • The U.S. Commercial Service is an Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. • Our mission is primarily to help small and medium sized, exportready companies to enter Mexico and to protect U.S. Business interests abroad..." Mexico is the United States’ 3rd largest trading partner Mexico is the 2nd destination of all U.S. exports Mexico accounts for roughly 1/6 of all U.S. exports 22 American states depend on Mexico as their first or second destination for exports More than $1.25 billion a day in two-way trade Nearly 50,000 U.S. small and medium-sized enterprises export to Mexico"" International Trade Administration U.S. Department of Commerce
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFOdpYi_JsY Oct 2, 2014 Smithsonian Channel In 1828, John Jacob Astor built a trading post on the Missouri River. Business was so profitable that it only took four decades for Astor to become America's first multimillionaire. From: AERIAL AMERICA: The Dakotas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVdLsgUDtso Mar 7, 2021 Point Roberts, Wash., on a peninsula jutting out from Canada beneath the 49th parallel, is a tiny piece of America separate from the U.S. mainland. Its isolation helped protect the community from the spread of COVID-19, but restrictions at the border have effectively trapped residents there – and kept visitors out. Correspondent Lee Cowan journeys to the isolated town suffering from the economic ripple effects of the pandemic. CBS Sunday Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH-_Mtkugbs Mar 24, 2021 Tug boats and a digger struggle to free a mega cargo ship, blocking one of the world's busiet shipping pathways. Sky News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uwL7vz0eWU&t=0s Feb 3, 2020 The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 54 independent and equal sovereign states. The Commonwealth is home to 2.4 billion people and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. Thirty-two of our members are small states, many of which are island nations. Our shared values and principles are inscribed in the Commonwealth Charter. Member countries are supported by a network of more than 80 intergovernmental, civil society, cultural and professional organisations.