¶ … Bernstein's book, a Splendid Exchange:How trade shaped world" retitled switch exotic spices Global Trade

For quite some time, the western world, spearheaded, of course, by Europe, has made a point to access both the far and the middle east in order to exchange commodities and goods in what was the beginning of global trade. This proclivity is well documented within the historical narrative of William Bernstein's book entitled A Splendid Narrative: How Trade Shaped the World. The valuables that Europeans have historically sought from the far and the middle east included exotic spices, sugar and tea, the likes of which were largely not available in the western hemisphere. As Bernstein explains in great detail within his manuscript, this desire of Europe's to access these goods of the middle east was eventually transformed from the luxuries afforded by extravagant spices to stable commodities that would eventual create the world economic trading...

The initial discoveries of the so-called new world were all traced to this longstanding desire of gaining additional routes to trade. In that sense, the trade in spices was a huge opening for Europe in both the 15th and 16th centuries, because it was this end of seeking spices that led to Europe's discovery of much of the territory that it would come to colonize within the Americas and the islands (such as Barbados) that were located within relatively close proximity to them. Christopher Columbus was seeking to find access to trade routes when he came upon the new world in 1492. Vasco da Gama was able to sail around the southern portion of Africa in order to…