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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Maps, Time, and World History
- Season 1 History and Memory
- Season 1 Human Migrations
- Season 1 Agricultural and Urban Revolutions
- Season 1 Early Belief Systems
- Season 1 Order and Early Societies
- Season 1 The Spread of Religions
- Season 1 Early Economies
- Season 1 Connections Across Land
- Season 1 Connections Across Water
- Season 1 Early Empires
- Season 1 Transmission of Traditions
- Season 1 Family and Household
- Season 1 Land and Labor Relationships
- Season 1 Early Global Commodities
- Season 1 Food, Demographics, and Culture
- Season 1 Ideas Shape the World
- Season 1 Rethinking the Rise of the West
- Season 1 Global Industrialization
- Season 1 Imperial Designs
- Season 1 Colonial Identities
- Season 1 Global War and Peace
- Season 1 People Shape the World
- Season 1 Globalization and Economics
- Season 1 Global Popular Culture
- Season 1 World History and Identity
Bridging World History - Season 1 Episode 15 Early Global Commodities
0.00 28 minutes What is globalization and when did it begin? Before the sixteenth century, the world's four main monetary substances were silver, gold, copper, and shells. But it was China's demand for silver and Spain's newly discovered mines in the Americas that finally created an all-encompassing network of global trade.
