HIST 1007 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bsc Young Boys, System On A Chip, List Of Dragonlance Characters
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In the early modern period, trade and commerce was already a motor of globalization, as it is today. Even independently of the opening of the americas, people on different continents were actively exchanging goods. The americas eventually contributed to this worldwide pattern. Plants from the new world also start taking over in. Crops from new world get introduced elsewhere known as the columbian exchange. Corn, tobacco ( grown in new world, doesn"t get planted in new world though), Potatoes(becomes staple in european diet), chocolate, tomatoes, most varieties of beans. Americas were also a place of disease at first and unfortunately this to be spreading to. In africa mali was the center of large trading system based on gold. Africa is center on the niger and jenne river which provide abundance of fish, and gold was discovered in present day ghana. Cario was a major trade terminal being the junction between europe and.