Starting in 1297, a small group of particularly wealthy merchants blocked political and economic competition. Abstract International...
Trade
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Regional, inter-regional and international trade was a common feature of the Roman world....
The Silk Road was a vast trade network connecting Eurasia and North Africa via land and sea...
Direct taxation was not well-developed in ancient Greece. Introduction The economy of ancient Greece was defined largely...
The trade of gold in West Africa goes back to antiquity. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction West Africa...
Exploring how China’s economic and diplomatic ties to the outside world shaped its modern history. Originally published...
How were spices used by medieval Europeans, and why were spices so valuable in medieval Europe? Originally...
Images of a cockatoo in Frederick II of Sicily’s falconry book reveal how trade routes around Australia’s...
How Malcolm McLean’s shipping containers conquered the global economy by land and sea. On April 26, 1956,...
Examining the connectedness and transnational interactions in the French spice project through the lens of Poivre’s informal...
Cultural, economic, and knowledge transfer occurred in spite of a seemingly long series of hurdles that had...
The European explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324 CE) traveled on these routes and described them in depth in...
The reputation of Chinese silk spread so that it became highly desired across the empires of the...
The full range of consumer goods of the period was set out to tempt the shopper and...
The Mediterranean Sea was the economic focal point of the Roman Empire. By Michael GoodyearJ.D. CandidateUniversity of Michigan...
The wealth of Egypt was owed in large part to the unrivaled fertility of the Nile. By...
For a long time, Baghdad was one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Today many people...
The Silk Road provided a conduit not only for silk, but also offered a very important path...
Analyzing the role that the Safavid economy played within the rapidly developing global economic system. By Connor...
Despite their common interests, relations between the foreigners and the Chinese community grew more tense during the...
Canton’s foreign quarter, sited between the city wall and the river, fit comfortably into the classic design...
Chinese and foreign merchants developed a great deal of respect for each other. Not just anyone could...
A vivid picture of the emergence of the global market and the beginnings of global competition. Introduction...
Examining historic economic links with Portugal and its relationships abroad. By Dr. Ana Cardoso de Matos (left),...
Globalization began when all heavily-populated land masses began interacting in a sustained manner with deep consequences for...
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...
In the tumultuous aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire, the newly founded Republic of Venice...