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10,000 BCE
PreHistory
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Period: 10,000 BCE to 3500 BCE
PreHistory
The humans appear and then discover how to use the fire, after that humans begin to develop agriculture and cattle raising. -
Period: 3500 BCE to 500
Ancient Era
Ancient civilizations such as Greece, Rome, China, Egypt, Persia, etc, begin to grow, develop products, tranportation, navigation and then to explore, the nomads in center Asia started to create the roads that after many years of trade and with the contributions of other empires would become the Silk Road, an intrincate network of routes that made possible the exchange between the East and the West, this led to the dissemination of information, techniques, products, diseases, religion, etc. -
400
Ancient Era
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Period: 500 to 1500
Middle Ages
The Feudal system is created and expanded through Europe, the crusades, Inquisition and the Black Death damaged the international trade, but after that there was an expantion in commerce with the growth of city-states as Venice or Genoa and the advances in navigation. The search of new sea routes to India led Cristopher Columbus to reach America in 1492, the discover of this continent is one of the most important events in the human history. -
600
Middle Ages
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Period: 1500 to
Modern Age
In 1500 Vasco da Gama discovers a new sea route from Europe to India, the Renaissance ends and after that the international trade grew, leading to the creation of trade enterprises as the Dutch East India Company in 1602, these companies had large fleets and could move capital and merchandises at a much larger scale than before. These companies were supported by the european countries and the expansion of the colonies around the world. -
Modern age
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Period: to
Contemporary Age
The USA entered in spice trade, Britain started to eliminate tariffs in order to promote free trade and invades China in 1840 because of the ban of opium, after that, in 1946 with the WWII end and the Bretton Woods system international trade start to recover, despite of the cold war there were many treaties that benefit free trade, after the URSS fall in 1991, ending of cold war, began the creation of organizations as the WTO and the European Union and international trade as we know it today. -
Contemporary Age
