histry of international trade?

Question

regarding more about international trade including histry

Answer 1

Trade goes back longer than historical records or the idea of nations and international anything. For example, in the Bronze Age, the Phoenicians came to Cornwall to buy the tin from which bronze was made. Earlier still, there is I believe archaeological evidence of trade between Minoan Crete and India.

The idea of "nations" kind-of-evolved out of tribes in Europe during the Dark Ages (the post-Classical period) when there was lots of (broadly westward and southwestward) migration of peoples in and into Europe. Trade across borders of kingdoms existed then too, though not a lot of it. It increased quite a bit during the mid and later Middle Ages as states emerged with traders in power, like Venice and Genoa.

There has of course been a huge upsurge of trade with the development of industrial manufacturing, an activity that created both tradeable goods and means of transport to move them around easily like railways and steamships.

More recently with developments like open capital markets, real-time technology, and the growth of cheap international travel, there has been a huge increase in trade in services.

Trans-border trade has grown faster than the world economy throughout the last 200 years and, in so far as it can be measured, would appear to have done so during the previous 1300 years as well.

Answer 2

As far as I can tell,you can't differentiate international trade from non-international one as they originated from the same source:the advent of private property. It gave rise to prodce things more than needed and this gave the man the idea of exchanging superfluous things with others to get the things they needed. Afterwards,people traded by bartering which leaded to international trade today.