1. { Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange (1450-1750 CE)

2.  I. In the context of the new global circulation of goods, there was an intensification of all existing regional trade networks that brought prosperity and economic disruption to the merchants and governments in the trading regions of the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, Sahara, and overland Eurasia. This means that all the trade networks continued and got better with the use of new navigation tools and ship designs

3.  http://amhistory.si.edu/onthewater/exhibitio n/1_1.html http://amhistory.si.edu/onthewater/exhibitio n/1_1.html http://amhistory.si.edu/onthewater/exhibitio n/1_1.html  Go here and view the “Living in the Atlantic World” exhibition and take notes including information about the changing ship designs, cash crops, and the Atlantic slave trade. Read about the pirates just for fun.