User:Goatmanatee/Timeline of International Trade/sandbox
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This article favors trade between settled cities in the Old World, and focuses on late modern and contemporary history. Trade in the Americas, East Asia, Central Asia, Subsaharan Africa, and Oceania could be expanded on, as could information on pre-modern trade routes. It is also slightly biased in favor of free trade. However, it does a good job in singling out which cities were significant centers of trade, and is ambitious in scope.
I intend to add information on trade with the Swahili coast, Mali, the Trans-Saharan Trade, early city states in Central Asia, Mesoamerica, the domestication of alpacas, the Manilla Galleons, registered ships, and smuggling to Spanish America.
The article is also missing any mention of the slave trade or Triangular Trade, the Hopewell Exchange, the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, the development of the triangular sail, the development of the cargo plane, smuggling routes as with drugs or prohibition, the English trade in wool and later textiles that led to the Industrial Revolution, mercantilism, capitalism, trading companies, the trading routes of Carthage and the Phoenicians, the trade routes of Venice and the Byzantines, the trade routes of the Mongols, the trade routes of Latin American countries, or the trade routes of the Asian Tigers.