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By this period, trade networks had become transglobal rather than only trans-Eurasian or transatlantic, affecting people across the connected system.
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“Trade is no longer trans-Eurasian or even transatlantic. It's transglobal. The networks now affect everybody at some point along the line. And the Ming found that out in the mid-1640s when there was a cash crisis having fully...”Play from 1:02:27Report a misattribution
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