Chapter 14

Economic Transformation

• The first part of chapter 14 already has me emotional. Speaking of slavery and poor treatment. 
• Slavery was not the only way humans interacted in the early modern era, due to new trading different countries and parts of the world such as Europeans and Asians made connections/relationships due to the trading of spices.
• Silver created connections between China, Western Europe, and Spanish America.
• It is interesting to see negative and positive relationships develop between countries such as Spain and the Philippines once the Spanish realized that they were behind in the "race" for gaining riches in the East.

Part 2:

• Our lives compared from those of the past are very different yer very similar. We are human beings and will always behave as so, but we continue to advance our world every single day.
• the global circulation of goods; an international currency; production for a world mar- ket; the growing economic role of the West on the global stage; private enterprise, such as the British and Dutch East India companies, operating on a world scale; national governments eager to support their merchants in a highly competitive environment all connect the 21st century to the early modern era making them similar. differences included scale and speed.
  
• slavery lost its legitimacy during the 19th century. 
• early modern globalization was powered by humans and animals rather than machines and technology.