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The Pre-modern World, The pre-modern world and the silk routes, Food travels: noodles, potatoes and the Americas, Conquest, disease and a westward shift, The Columbian exchange, The Nineteenth Century, The nineteenth century, 1815 to 1914: three flows, The Corn Laws and a world food economy, Technology: railways, ships and refrigeration, The Suez Canal, 1869, Rinderpest, Rinderpest, the cattle plague in Africa.

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goods, people and money on the move, and who paid for it

The pre-modern world and the silk routes

the world has been tied together for thousands of years by travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims carrying goods, money, skills, ideas and germs
the silk routes are named for the west bound Chinese silk cargoes, they existed before the Christian era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century
historians count several such routes, over land and by sea, knitting together Asia, Europe and northern Africa
Chinese pottery went west, textiles and spices came from India and Southeast Asia, and precious metals, gold and silver, flowed from Europe to Asia
Buddhism emerged from eastern India and spread outward through the points where these routes crossed

Food travels: noodles, potatoes and the Americas

noodles are thought to have travelled west from China to become spaghetti, or Arab traders may have taken pasta to fifth century Sicily
potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies and sweet potatoes were unknown to our ancestors until about five centuries ago
they reached Europe and Asia only after Christopher Columbus came upon the Americas
Ireland's poorest peasants grew so dependent on the potato that when disease destroyed the crop in the mid 1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation

Conquest, disease and a westward shift

the Portuguese and Spanish conquest of America was decisively under way by the mid sixteenth century, and firepower alone did not win it
smallpox carried on the bodies of the conquerors killed whole communities, because America's original inhabitants had no immunity to it
until the nineteenth century poverty, hunger, crowded cities and deadly disease were common in Europe, and thousands fled to America
until well into the eighteenth century China and India were among the world's richest countries, and from the fifteenth century China restricted overseas contact
China's retreat and the rising importance of the Americas moved the centre of world trade westwards to Europe

The Columbian exchange

historians call the two way traffic that followed 1492 the Columbian exchange
west to east came maize, potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, cocoa and tobacco, east to west went wheat, sugarcane, horses and cattle, and the diseases travelled with them
it is the largest single change in what the world eats, and no treaty or factory had anything to do with it

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What this The Making of a Global World sheet covers

The Pre-modern World
The pre-modern world and the silk routes
Food travels: noodles, potatoes and the Americas
Conquest, disease and a westward shift
The Columbian exchange
The Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century, 1815 to 1914: three flows
The Corn Laws and a world food economy
Technology: railways, ships and refrigeration
The Suez Canal, 1869
Rinderpest
Rinderpest, the cattle plague in Africa
Indian Indentured Labour Migration
Indian Trade, Colonialism and the Global System
The Inter-war Economy
The First World War as the great break
Mass production and the boom of the 1920s
The Great Depression
The Great Depression, and India inside it
Rebuilding a World Economy
Rebuilding a world economy: Bretton Woods, 1944
The end of that system and the turn to globalisation
The World Trade Organisation, 1995
Traps that cost marks
Tricks that make it stick

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