connected the Europeans with Asia. Nationalism, through nations believing their superiority, the rise of trade routes, such as the Silk Road and Saharan trade routes, and merchants, sharing their ideas and goods with the people they met, would all come together to create the complex early trade periods.
Ethnocentrism, the idea that your country or civilization is more powerful than anyone else, helped develop a large sense of nationalism in the early trading days. Nationalism is the driving force behind…
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