oThe Asian economy was on the rise ever since Islam started growing during the seventeenth century.

oThis meant that a particular supremacy, he Islamic caliphate would guaranty safe route connecting two worlds, Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.

oVarious commodities were exchanged across enormous distances

oNot just luxury commodities but also bulky necessities such as flour and firewood

oDrugs are well thought-out as drugs if they are ingested, smoked, sniffed, or get you intoxicated and produce an altered state of being.

oIn other cultures some drugs are seen as medicine and sacraments of religious rites.

oCoffee and tobacco were banned initially in consuming countries, but eventually they decided to tax consumers for these delicacies.

oTenochtitlan was a market for trading that when Spanish conquistadors saw it and were surprised.

oThere is one square that is so big all enclosed by arcades, were more than sixty thousand souls are bought and sold.

oThey sold great quantities of people and goods; Spanish conquistadors had never see such thing before.

oThe potato just second-class food in its homeland.

o The potato was never brought as far as Colombia and only grown in the mountains.

oThey thought of it as poisonous not suited for trade but crises fashioned the need for the potato.

oIn the present day the potato is the second biggest food crop in the world.

oThe effect of the smoke gave the Indians a more aggressive effect than the Europeans.

oApproximately the cusp of Europe, in china and Japan, in India, the middle east, and along the coast of Africa-and the common folk who saw sailors smoke began themselves to fire the demonic vegetable.

oThe Europeans was that were their was smoke their was money to be made.

oThe cocoa bean had been prized by Mesoamerica before the time of Christ.

oThe first civilization in America thought the Mayan civilization how to use the cocoa and so passed the tradition of the cocoa.

oIt was prized for its pharmaceutical effect and for its rarity in its taste.

oSolders would drink the cocoa before battle to steel them; the king Montezuma would drink it before he would make love to his many wives.

oThe cocoa bean was also used to cure fever, cough and anxiety.