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3000 BCE
Neolithic revolution
Caravans traveled along the Fertile Crescent trading between Mesopotamia and the Levant. It already existed long-distance trade as a salient feature of economic development. -
800 BCE
Carolingian Empire
At this era it appears the evolution of communications and the mobility of people across distant regions. People started to import exotic medicines and new drugs developed by Arab pharmacology, while silk continued to flowinto northwest Europe. To pay for these imports, Europe produced textiles, tin, Frankish swords, and European slaves. -
100 BCE
The Roman Empire
Long distance trade existed but in a lesser extent because of the collapse of the western part of the Roman Empire -
476
Middle Ages
*It occurs an expansion of trade with the rise of city-states
such as Venice and Genoa, and the advent of the commercial revolution. *Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus *Discovery of the passage to the East Indies via The Cape of Good by Vaco da Gama *Led to a new balance of power
between the nobility, the merchants, and the crown
