Essays on Trade Route

Introduction to Financial markets

The financial market is a term that is used to describe any marketplace where both buyers and sellers participate in asset trading like bonds, equities, derivatives, and currencies. Therefore, it is typically defined by possessing transparency pricing, regulations on trading, and market forces that determine the value of securities that are in the trade. Financial markets are almost found in every country. However, some may be small with few participants while others like the New York Stock Exchange are big and do trade trillions of dollars on a daily basis. Moreover, the investors have the access to a large ...

Before the 1400’s the European had not gained much interest in exploring the world. However, there was an explosion of exploration by the Europeans beginning in the 1400s towards the early 1600s. There exist a number of reasons for this new movement, ranging from economic reasons to technological advances. This paper aims at exploring the motives that inspired the European to explore and the factors that explained their success during that period in history. There are four main motives that inspired European exploration, which include the search for wealth, the discovery of trade roots, a desire to spread Christianity, and ...

The global economic crisis overview

The global economic crisis has been recorded as the most severe financial and economic crisis experienced across the world. Up to date, its aftermath is still being felt. This global crisis is known to have heard unprecedented effect on capital and credit. It took offshoot from financial markets in the United States. The contagion and impact ended up spreading unevenly all over the world. In this paper, I am going to discuss the effect and aftermath of the global economic crisis on the VLCC market in Nigeria, basing my argument on variables such as flight rate, other books, new ...

Food is an integral part of any culture, and other than physical security and comfort, most civilizations in history were built around the need to provide a steady nutritional sustenance to the population. While historical accounts tend to explain the expansion of empires (including the discovery of the New World) as achievements of exploration, many of the explorers were driven by the sole purpose of own profit. Food was easily one of the most important trade goods, which in turn, shaped the subsequent relationships that emerged among nations. Perhaps, none was more important between 3000 BCE and 1500 CE than ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Christopher Columbus and "Globalization" in the early modern world Globalization is by no means a phenomenon invented in the twentieth century, particularly with reference to cultural exchanges. Globalization is much more than a commodities exchange across national borders. It is a phenomenon which denotes the flow and bartering of knowledge, commodities, values, specimens and people on a global scale. It is fast replacing the societal identity of nationality with globality. Most historians attach the origin of globalization to the year 1492, when ‘Columbus’ stumbled upon America in his search for trade route to Asia. But even as early as thousand years before ...