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A 5 page research paper that address 4 history topics. These are a comparison between the spice trade and today's oil trade; 2 innovative navigational discoveries that changed history; why 15th century merchants needed banks; and where --given 3 choices of where to be a slave--would it be logical to choose a location in the fifteenth century. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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32). Similarly, in the twentieth century, the same can be said of oil. In both cases, these commodities sparked trade due to the remote nature of the product in relation
to markets demanding its use. Vasco da Gama and other adventurers stretched the realms of ocean navigation at least partially in order to bring more spice to European markets faster
and the oil industry is responsible for transforming the nature of societies in the Middle East in order to gain access to their oil. In both cases, the tremendous
economic pressure that these commodities generated resulted in the formulation of companies and corporations designed specifically for the purposes of expanding this trade. Dutch, Viennese, Portuguese and other traders began
to influence and eventually dominate the cultures where the spice was produced, and tried, in so doing, to create monopolies on certain spices ("A taste" 32). Similarly, at the dawn
of the twentieth century, American involvement in the Middle East primarily took the form of missionary and educational activities (Citino 8). However, in the 1920s and 30s, American oil companies
began to invest heavily in the region in a manner that might be deemed somewhat analogous to the involvement of European powers in promoting the cultivation of spice. In 1933,
Standard Oil of California negotiated a contract with the King of Saudi Arabia that granted the company the exclusive concession to develop what would become the "worlds richest oil
fields" (Citino 8). While the commodity and the involved countries have changed, the basic paradigm of demand, scarcity and economic manipulation remains the same. 2 navigational innovations that changed
the course of history While the Chinese have known about magnetism since the third millennium BC, it appears that no one used the properties of magnetism for navigation in the
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