Intro to Part 4

It's interesting how we like to label things and put them into groups. We label a certain period of time something, but it really doesn't do it any justice. I agree with the book and how the name of these eras leave a lot of what happened during that time out. 

Discovering the Americas is usually what we remember. Trading became a global expansion and sadly so did the selling of slaves. I was never familiar with any other trading, since a lot of the focus was on Europeans. It was interesting to read how different religions made its way into other regions of the world. 

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