International trading

After I finished chapter 15 i was really amazed by how much trading went on during the early years between the Asian, European, and North Americas.  People would be trading slaves from Africa all the way to fur from North America and Siberia.  Fur was in a really high demand in Europe which caused the Americas to up the fur collection.  As a result the native beavers to the land start to get killed off more and more because the Americas needed to obtain massive amounts of fur to trade with the Europeans.  Many of the Native Americans started to be used for their skills in trapping the beavers to obtain their fur, the Natives were basically just being used to get the product at the end, which I think is horrible.  Not only for the Native Americans, but for the beavers as well.  While reading I also stumbled on the idea of early pirates.  Pirates would attack helpless ships in the Indian ocean for their treasures and spices to use and take for themselves.  The pirates would make deals with the Asians to create these so called side deals that were pretty much like the olden days black market if you can imagine.