
A whistle-stop tour around the world in AD 1500
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The Emerging Global Economy - Is That Fair?
Many historians and I'd be somebody who would talk about if you want to discuss the birth or even the development of globalization, people will predate it even before 1500. But I think it's a moment where you get a connectedness across all the different continentsWhere America is then part of that story in a way that it hasn't been before. You start to get merchants being connected through these nodal points in what I would definitely say is an emerging global economy.
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