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Journal of European Economic History 41.3 (2012): 69+. Matthee, Rudolph P. The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Schiltz, Michael. Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913 (Oxford University Press, 2020) ISBN 0198865023
This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.
The West Indies fleet was the first permanent transatlantic trade route in history. Similarly, the related Manila galleon trade was the first permanent trade route across the Pacific. The Spanish West and East Indies fleets are considered among the most successful naval operations in history [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and, from a commercial point of view ...
With this act the government did start to institute admiralty courts and staff them in more and new places; this established "a more general obedience to the Acts of Trade and Navigation." John Reeves , who wrote the handbook for the Board of Trade, [ 51 ] considered the 1696 act to be the last major navigation act, with relatively minor ...
The Manila galleon trade route was inaugurated in 1565 after the Augustinian friar and navigator Andrés de Urdaneta pioneered the tornaviaje or return route from the Philippines to Mexico. Urdaneta and Alonso de Arellano made the first successful round trips that year, by taking advantage of the Kuroshio Current .
The more successful trade routes between English colonists and Native Americans in the United States were from explorers and mappers, [15] they were seen as less of a threat and would often spend several days inside Indian Territory in order to survive the harshness of the land.
The United States government sanctioned a factory system from 1796 to 1822, with factories scattered through the mostly unsettled portion of the country. The factories were officially intended to protect Native Americans from exploitation through special legislation, the Indian Intercourse Acts .
Mali's most famous ruler, Mansa Musa, traveled across the Trans-Saharan trade routes on his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325. [3] Because Islam became so prominent in North and West Africa, many of the trade routes and caravan networks were controlled by Muslim nations. [1] In the 14th century, prominent trade and travel routes had been firmly ...