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Comparative advantage: even a worse producer profits from trade

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Manhattan was bought for trade goods worth about 60 guilders

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A small sea snail's shell was money across three continents

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The first coins were minted in Lydia around 600 BCE

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The Hanseatic League was a medieval trade network of nearly 200 towns

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The Silk Road was a web of routes, and silk was only part of it

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Spices were once so precious they launched the Age of Exploration

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3 Apr 1860

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The Pony Express began carrying mail across the American West

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1 May 1840

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Britain issues the Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp

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26 Oct 1825

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The Erie Canal opened, transforming American trade

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