Bridging World History
Season 1 • Episode 15: Early Global Commodities • Watch with subtitles
Episode 15: Early Global Commodities
April 9, 2004 • 28 min
What is globalization and when did it begin? Before the sixteenth century, the world's four main monetary substances were silver, gold, copper, and shells. But it was China's demand for silver and Spain's newly discovered mines in the Americas that finally created an all-encompassing network of global trade.
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