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The grand exchange by clarewiznura on 03-21-2014
You know whats endlessly fascinating? The grand exchange.
I know! Isn't it cool how things are shipped all over the world? Like sunflowers, native to North America, making its way to Europe and thriving in colder places like Russia-
Exactly! But the downsides are so much more fascinating-
Oh, I agree. The way it encouraged slave labour in the way that it wants as much as possible as many places as possible for as little cost as possible.
Or how-
It's effects on cultures by making delicacies once reserved for the most sepcial of occasions, like the cocoa bean, available at every turn? Or the effects on the environment as we ship things back and forth across the ocean. Now you were trying to say something?
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