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Trade changed people's life in many ways. Consumption was different, exporting began to be a priority, marketing changed. 

What trade opened during the ancient times has been fundamental for the development of past cultures, which continues to be valid to this day. Each region in the world offered different products depending on the type of land, climate, technological advances, etc. Southern Arabia and Northern Somalia offered incense and myrrh, China silk, and South East Asia some type of spices. This allowed people to specialized in manufacturing different goods for sale in distant markets instead of using the products only locally. For example, in exchange for gold from their region, West Africans imported scarce salt required for human diets and seasoning food. All this influenced many people to think and work differently than previous. 

Trade evolved into a form of social mobility. Long distance trading also enabled privileged classes in society to differentiate themselves as commoners by buying valuable goods from far. The privileged class loved to buy silk, jade, private feathers.


Trade became a medium for spreading religious beliefs, technological advances, disease-bearing germs, and plants and animals to regions far away from their places of source. This is how Buddhism spread from India to West Africa. In this same way, different types of diseases spread. During the era of third-wave civilizations, the intense cultural and biological transformations were among the most significant results of the increasingly dense network of long-distance trade.

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