Basic Guide To Trade Stuff

By Stacey Burt


It is called trading consistent socioeconomic activity in exchange of some materials that are available in market for buying and selling goods and services, whether for use, for sale or processing. It is the change or dealing with something for something else of equal value. For commercial or industrial activities mean both transfer of goods or services that are performed by a merchant or merchant (trade stuff).

The most common currency was pure gold, although throughout history have also appeared others, such as salt or pepper. Currencies intercontinental trading facilitated greatly. Throughout the Middle Ages, began to emerge a transcontinental trading routes trying meet the high European demand for goods and goods, especially luxury. Among the most famous routes highlights the Silk Road, but there were other important as import routes pepper, salt or dyes.

Trading through these routes was a direct trading. Most of goods owner changed every few tens of kilometers to reach the rich European courts. Nevertheless, these early trading routes and began making raised in states regulating imports. There was even a time when the use of silk for clothing in males was banned, in order to reduce the consumption of this expensive product.

From the seventeenth century onwards, almost all transatlantic crossings to North America, port of arrival was New York. Soon transatlantic trading New York became the first port in North America, and consequently attracted most of goods and all future transatlantic passenger traffic. New York became the commercial capital of United States (US) and one of most important cities in world.

Non-combatant members of Order of Temple (Knights Templar) (XII-XIII) managed a complex economic structure throughout the Christian world, creating new financial techniques (notes and even the first bill of exchange) that constitute a primitive form of modern bank. Among the services offered was transporting money. The pilgrims could deposit money in an establishment and then go to another facility and remove, even between different countries, thus contributing to road safety. This was the first draft.

Barter was the way ancient civilizations began to trading. It is exchanging goods for other goods of equal value. The main drawback of this trading is that the two parties involved in business transaction had to match the need of goods offered by the other party. To solve this problem arose a series of intermediaries that stored the goods involved in commercial transactions. These intermediaries often added a too high risk inse transactions, and therefore this trading was quickly shelved when it appeared the coin

The currency, or money, in a more general definition, is an agreed in a community for the exchange of goods and assets between. The money not only has to serve for the exchange, but is also a unit of account and a tool to store value. Historically there have been many different types of money from pigs, whale teeth, cocoa, or certain types of seashells. But certainly the most widely used throughout history is gold.

Around 1400, the disruption of Mongol Empire, the growth of Ottoman Empire and the end of Byzantine Empire causes all routes of European trading with the East are blocked. The search for new routes, the rise of merchant capitalism and the desire to explore the potential of a global economy in Europe prompted the Age of Discovery.




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