2. When Asia was the World Economy
When Islamic power rose, they were
trying to unite the Mediterranean and
Indian ocean.
During this time there were many
merchants who brought goods from all
over Asia.
Rulers paid tributes to the Islamic to
allow a foreign merchant into their
land.
The Portuguese government attacked
the idea of an ocean belonging to
someone.
In the end, the Portuguese were never
able to completely attack the other
kingdoms.
3. The Economic Culture of Drugs
In the past it was Believed that drugs
were good for medicine and spiritually.
It was during the seventeenth century
when people started to drink, smoke,
and eat exotic plants.
For three years drugs were the most
valuable agricultural good.
The Aztecs and Incas tried to prevent
the seeds of drugs to spread into the
Europeans so the drugs can become
even more valuable.
In some countries, the drugs were used
the same way as money.
It was the twentieth century that
prohibited drugs and alcohol.
4. Aztec Traders
Cozumel was one Trading center in the
Mesoamerica.
The Aztecs had to carry all their goods
on their back because there were no
animals that could.
It was the Pochteca that astonished the
Spanish conquistadors, with there
manner of trading in a square shape.
After the Spanish arrived, Aztecs did
not continue to trade because the
Aztecs didn’t think of money or
property.
After the Spanish conquest, the
Spanish ended the Aztec and Mayan
political power.
5. Potatoes
Potatoes were discovered by Spanish
soldiers in the Peruvian Andes in 1550.
Potatoes were not worth much and was
hardly welcomed in the trade.
The potatoes' was mostly grown
because it proved successful in high
altitudes for some people.
The potato entered cuisine foods as a
side dish for the Europeans and as a
meal for the Indian slaves.
During the 1600 European food crisis,
it was discovered that the potato could
solve the food crisis .
6. Sweet Revolutions
Sugar was domesticated in India by 300
B.C.
Later Egyptian sugar was considered
the finest.
Later Haiti became a sugar plantation
and a slave prison.
In between 1500 and 1880, 10 million
Africans were shipped across the
Atlantic; most of them were shipped to
Haiti’s slave plantation.
During the French revolution, the Haiti
use the chance to free themselves and
took over the entire island.
The slave plantation was then
separated into small lands for each
Jacobin to own.
7. Where There’s Smoke…
At the end of the sixteenth century,
Virginia was covered in cold fog as well
as mosquitoes.
The people discovered there were
starving people that look like bones.
It was discovered that most natives of
Brazil, India and the Americas smoked
tobacco.
Tupinamba Indians smoked tobacco
and didn’t eat for three to four days.
It was thought that smoking tobacco
could take them to the great beyond.
Tobacco became so famous later that it
helped for Europe’s successful trading.
8. Mocca is not Chocolate
Coffee was developed in 1400 by the
Yemeni city.
The beverage was presently in the
Arabian peninsula.
Coffee’s price was very high because
coffee became a luxurious drink.
De la Roque purchased 600 tons of
coffee, but due to demand it took
longer for people to get coffee, so de la
roque’s purchased caused the price of
coffee to rise even more.
De la Roques purchase of coffee took
two and a half years to get it all back to
the ottoman empire.
9. Chocolate
Chocolate was called ka-ka-wa by
Mayans, later cacao by the Aztecs, it
was called chocolate after the Spanish.
The cacao was first discovered in
Mesoamerica.
Chocolate was greatly desired by the
Aztecs. In the market chocolate was
valuable and rare.
Cacao was so valuable and rare that it
was also used as currency.
The Spanish and Costa Rica used this
method of paying as well during the
eighteenth century.
