Chapter 15

This chapter mainly focuses on the different trade routes that were being used throughout the world by different continents, trading their resources from one country to another. Commerce came along for the empires and became a big movement for globalization. Commerce between countries allowed new relationships to occur among the people, enriched some, disrupted old patterns empires had, and some countries even enslaved people. Vasco de Gama and his Portugese successors sailed the arena of Indian Ocean commerce, the portuguese believed that trading would be peaceful and valuable between other countries but the reality was that the European trade goods were raw and unattractive in Asian markets. As we can see Vasco de Gama and his followers didn't care the situation they were going to put themselves while looking for the right trade routes,  as long as they were in search of trading what they had that's all they would care about especially because for them it was an experience going on a journey and were brave enough to do it.  The most important trading source that became very significant was trading silver especially because it gave birth to a global network of exchange. Spanish america produced about 85% of the world's silver during the modern era, I found this very interesting. Overall, the idea of this chapter is how commerce worked within the countries during the time.