Me: can anyone tell me what big disaster in the middle of the 1300s destroyed the existing world system of trade?
My class: *silence*
Me: *draws this on the board*
My class: *5 people put their hands up at once*
Who would win? a longstanding system of cross-civilization trade spanning from sub-Saharan Africa to East Asia, predating the rise of the European “global empires” by centuries, or