Chinese and foreign merchants developed a great deal of respect for each other. Not just anyone could...
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Panelists discuss how rural America has been affected by recent tariffs and intermittent trade wars. Left-to-Right: Thomas...
The search for a commodity that the Chinese wanted to buy led the British to develop opium...
From early times China engaged in extensive trade relations with other countries, From early times China engaged...
The League aimed to protect trade, which meant that maintaining peace was also a major concern. Introduction...
It can easilybe argued that the United States exists today becausemedieval Europeans liked spicy food. Introduction The...
The archaeological evidence is clear, but the mechanisms of diffusion are still not entirely understood. By Dr....
A Phoenician-Punic ship from a relief carving on a 2nd century CE sarcophagus / Photo by NMB, Wikimedia...
The Great Silk Road was a caravan road connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean from Ancient times...
Examining interactions and the exchanges in the Eurasian networks during the first centuries of the Roman Empire. By...
Kamares wares in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion (photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0) Kamares ware helps us map...
‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ by Marino Sanudo with maps by Pietro Vesconte. This map of the world was...
Medieval townsfolk needed very different sorts of technologies than did rural farmers, and they eagerly adopted tools...
One of the churches in Mamshit. (Creative Commons) The incense route was a path spanning more than...
Divers are seen during the discovery of a centuries-old shipwreck, in Cascais in a photo released Monday....
Mosaic of amphorae being unloaded from a ship, Ostia / Southampton University, Creative Commons The trade networks...
A brief critical survey of the development, implications, and limitations of the Age of Commerce paradigm in...
Mysia Islands off Troas, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.27 g 12). / Photo by Exekias,...
The historical emergence and use of money is an important question. By Dr. Alexander W. Salter /...
New DNA analysis reveals that, before their mysterious disappearance, the Norse colonies of Greenland had a “near...
Wikimedia Commons (click image to enlarge) By Dr. Catherine Denial Associate Professor of History Knox College Common...