Ch. 15: Global Commerce 1450-1750

• the chapter is mainly about the trade network that shaped up the world between the 1450-1750.
• the Europeans were very interested in long-distance trade as they break into the Indian Ocean spice trade.
• Europeans wanted a commercial connection with the Asians.
• Both Vasco da Gama and Columbus wanted routes to Asia because their main object they desired were spices.
• Spain and Portugal both want to take control of the Asian trade.
• This is very interesting to me how many of these people would just fight and go such distances for spices and other things like slave trade.