Destiny Williams
Professor Patricia Andrews
World History 2
January 2018
Chapter 14
Chinese silk signified rank, position, or prestige across Eurasia.
The late twentieth century American blue jeans were in demand among the youth
Americans who can afford a Ferrari or a Porsche acquired sophistication making them different from others.
Global commerce wasn't the only expansion in the early modern era food, fashion, finery, and more also expanded.
People across the world had access to luxury goods and enhance their status
A man can wear cotton cloth from India and eat food out of a bowl made in China: Global Trade
Some goods such as sugar, pepper, tobacco, tea, and Indian cotton textiles drop in price becoming widely available.
Europeans embraced goods of the world
Global Trade was one of the main assets of the Early Modern World
I think this chapter has a lot to do with luxury things and how anyone in any country can have things from all over the world. Global Trade has been around for a long time and it was very useful to many.
