1. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History First Edition
Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History First Edition
CHAPTER 15
Global Commerce
1450–1750
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

2. Europeans and Asian Commerce
A Portuguese Empire of Commerce
Spain and the Philippines
The East India Companies
Asian Commerce

3. Silver and Global Commerce

4. The “World Hunt”:
Fur in Global Commerce

5. The Atlantic Slave Trade
Commerce in People:
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Slave Trade in Context
The Slave Trade in Practice
Comparing Consequences: The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa

6. Chapter 15 Global Commerce, 1450–1750
Map 15.1 Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Era (p. 436)
Map 15.2 The Global Silver Trade (p. 442)
Map 15.3 The North American Fur Trade (p. 446)
Map 15.4 The Atlantic Slave Trade (p. 449)
Snapshot: The Slave Trade in Numbers (p. 454)
The Atlantic Slave Trade (p. 432)
The Spice Trade (p. 437)
A European View of Asian Commerce (p. 440)
Potosí (p. 443)
Fur and the Russians (p. 448)
The Middle Passage (p. 451)