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As merchants profits increased the government collected more taxes, funding for the visual and preforming arts.

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As merchants profits increased the government collected more taxes, funding for the visual and preforming arts.

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-Innovations in visual and preforming arts were seen all over the world.

-Literacy expanded and was accomplished by the proliferation of popular authors,literary and works of literature in Afro-Eurasia

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The increases in interaction between newly connected hemispheres expanded the spread and reform of existing religions and created syncretic belief systems.

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The increases in interaction between newly connected hemispheres expanded the spread and reform of existing religions and created syncretic belief systems.

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-As Islam spread to new settings in Afro-Eurasia , believers adapted it to local cultural practices.

-Christianity continued to spread throughout the world.

-Buddhism spread within Asia.

-Syncretic and new forms of religion developed.

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The new connections between Eastern and Western hemispheres resulted in the Columbian Exchange.

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The new connections between Eastern and Western hemispheres resulted in the Columbian Exchange.

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-European colonization of the Americas led to the spread of diseases.

-American foods became staple crops in parts of Europe.

-Afro-Eurasian products by Europeans to the Americas.

-Populations in Afro-Eurasia benefited nutritionally from the diversity of the American crops.

-European colonization and European agriculture and settlement practices in the Americas affected the physical environment through deforestation and soil depletion.

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New global circulation of goods was facilitated by royal chartered European monopoly companies but regional markets continued to flourish by using commercial practices and transoceanic services.

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New global circulation of goods was facilitated by royal chartered European monopoly companies but regional markets continued to flourish by using commercial practices and transoceanic services.

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-European merchants' role im Asian trade was characterized by transporting goods from one Asian country to another Asian market/Indian Ocean region.

-Commercialization and the creation of a global economy were intimately connected to new global circulation of silver from the Americas.

-Joint-stock companies were the new methods used by European rulers to control their domestic and colonial economies.

-The Atlantic system involved the movement of goods, wealth, and free and unfree laborers, and the mixing of African and American and European cultures and peoples.

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Remarkable new transoceanic maritime reconnaissance occurred in this period.

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Remarkable new transoceanic maritime reconnaissance occurred in this period.

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-Chinese maritime activity expanded into the Indian Ocean.

-Portuguese development of a school for navigation led to increased travel to and trade with West Africa.

-Spanish sponsorship of the first Columbian voyage across the Atlantic and Pacific dramatically increased European interest in transoceanic travel and trade.

-Northern Atlantic crossings for fishing and settlements spurred European searches for routes to Asia.

-In Oceania and Polynesia, established exchange were not affected because of of infrequent European reconnaissance in the Pacific Ocean.

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European technological developments in cartography and navigation built on previous knowledge developed in the classical Islamic and Asian worlds.

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European technological developments in cartography and navigation built on previous knowledge developed in the classical Islamic and Asian worlds.

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-They brought new production of new tools, innovations in ship designs, and improved understanding of global wind and currents patterns- all which made transoceanic travel and trade possible.

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Intensification of all existing regional trade networks that brought prosperity and economic disruption to the governments in trading regions. 

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Intensification of all existing regional trade networks that brought prosperity and economic disruption to the governments in trading regions. 

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-Some of these trading regions were of the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, Saharan, and overland Eurasia.