![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tobacco from the Caribbean ensorcelled the wealthy and powerful in Madrid, Madras, Mecca, and Manila.īut nothing like this worldwide exchange had existed before, still less sprung up so quickly, or functioned so continuously. By the time those babies had grandchildren, slaves from Africa mined silver in the Americas for sale to China Spanish merchants waited impatiently for the latest shipments of Asian silk and porcelain from Mexico and Dutch sailors traded cowry shells from the Maldive Islands, in the Indian Ocean, for human beings in Angola, on the coast of the Atlantic. Mann's 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 1 Two Monuments THE SEAMS OF PANGAEAīabies born on the day the admiral founded La Isabela-January 2, 1494-came into a world in which direct trade and communication between western Europe and East Asia were largely blocked by the Islamic nations between (and their partners in Venice and Genoa), sub-Saharan Africa had little contact with Europe and next to none with South and East Asia, and the Eastern and Western hemispheres were almost entirely ignorant of each other's very existence. Mann: 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. ![]()
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