Globalization of Trade

The Silver WayLong before London and New York rose to international prominence, a trading route was discovered between Spanish America and China that ushered in a new era of globalization. The “Ruta de la Plata,” or “Silver Way,” catalyzed economic and cultural exchange, built the foundations for the first global currency, and led to the rise of the first “world city.” And yet, for all its importance, the Silver Way is too often neglected in conventional narratives on the birth of globalization.

An Age of Globalization study packet. A table showing an Age of Globalization (1450 to 1750 CE) summary of developments and collection of videos by Aguayo Tabor at Austin International School

How Did The World Become Interconnected? | Unit 8: Big History Project | OER Project

May 21, 2014

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New trade networks caused an explosion in the trade of goods, but also of ideas, technologies, and diseases.

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How did the world become interconnected? Unit 9

From the Big History Project: Expansion and Interconnection.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Dutch East India CompanyMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch East India Company.

In Our Time: The Dutch East India Company

"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC, known in English as the Dutch East India Company. The VOC dominated the spice trade between Asia and Europe for two hundred years, with the British East India Company a distant second. At its peak, the VOC had a virtual monopoly on nutmeg, mace, cloves and cinnamon, displacing the Portuguese and excluding the British, and were the only European traders allowed access to Japan." 43 min.

5 Surprising Ways the Age of Exploration Shaped Modern CivilizationThe voyages of Christopher Columbus and others may seem like ancient history, but they actually resulted in major cultural exchanges that shaped the world we live in today.

The global origins of the Boston Tea PartyFar from being a parochial dispute between squabbling cousins, the Boston Tea Party was an incident with global origins. And, as Benjamin Carp reveals, it has since inspired acts of non-violent civil disobedience in nations as diverse as Lebanon and China…

Connections Episode 4: Faith in Trade

https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e04

Watch online or download the file on Internet Archive

"Faith in Numbers" examines the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance from the perspective of how commercialism, climate change, and the Black Death influenced cultural development. He examines the impact of Cistercian waterpower on the Industrial Revolution, derived from Roman watermill technology such as that of the Barbegal aqueduct and mill. Also covered are the Gutenberg printing press, the Jacquard loom, and the Hollerith punch card tabulator that led to modern computer programming.

History of Venice & Genoa | Italy Part 3

World's oldest clove? Here's what our find in Sri Lanka says about the early spice tradeArchaeologists have found cloves and black pepper corns they believe to be more than 1,000 years old at a site in Sri Lanka.

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