how did commerce serve to link the world in the early modern era?

how did commerce serve to link the world in the early modern era? what were the general trajectories of these encounters, and how did they structure the relationship between Europeans and the peoples of Asia and Africa and the Americas?

During the early modern period (circa 1500-1789), new ideas of race emerged at the same time European countries began to move from the periphery to the core of the global economy. How were these process linked?

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