User:Goatmanatee/Timeline of international trade
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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.
The article is also missing any mention of the Triangular Trade, the Hopewell Exchange, the Beaver Wars, the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, the development of the triangular sail, the development of the cargo plane, drug smuggling or prohibition, the English trade in wool and later textiles that led to the Industrial Revolution, mercantilism, capitalism, trading companies, the trade routes of Carthage and the Phoenicians, the trade routes of Venice and the Byzantines, trade with Latin American countries, or trade with the Asian Tigers.
This article is ambitious in scope, addressing a wide range of possible events, which is currently a weakness in the article as there is much more information to cover. While my edits tried to improve information on areas outside of Eurasia, my edits focused on the ancient to early modern periods, so that there is still a dearth of information on trade and related events outside of Eurasia from the Early Modern to Contemporary Periods, such as the Saltpeter War, Triangular Trade, or American cotton plantations. The article also lacks references to key technologies that facilitated trade, such as the compass, triangular sail, or cargo plane, or the Suez, Panama, or Grand Canals. There are also some major trading powers missing, such as reference to Carthage, Venice, the Vikings, or the Asian Tigers. There are also no direct references to the development of philosophies of trade like bullionism, Adam Smith, or the Iron Curtain. Illegal activity, like drug smuggling, prohibition, or piracy, could also be expanded on. Despite this missing information, I think the article's scope and ambition make it intriguing.