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All start when people discovered that they can work in agriculture. After that, a part of the population begin to specialize in pottery and working on those materials.
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After have discovered agriculture, people start bartering between them. Paying some objects with different ones that they did not need.
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The silk route was a route that conect Rome with China. It has 6000km and it was used to transport Chinese silk, Roman wood and precious metals from intermediate points as India and Persia.
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The feudalism was a political, social and economical system based in a contract of two people. One of them have to work in the land and the other one have to pay him with food and a save place where to live.
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In the XIV Century some countries like Rome, Egypt and Greece started bartering between them, exchanging food, clothes, tools, ceramics, etc... that is how international barter began.
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In the XV Century the coin is invented and people stop paying with materials, food or clothes. The use of money change the way they negotiated and increased the economy of the countries.
The most important currency was the pure gold. -
The comercial routes born from the countries need to trade between them to supply their needs.
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During the capitalism system the Spanish balance is created with the idea of control the exports.These (exports) must be bigger than the imports.
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Trading gets better with the change of the sailboat to the steamboat. It is faster and safer.
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The mercantilism system focused on the international trade as a source of economic development. The invention of the printing press, the evolution of transport, the expansion of the comercial companies and the monopolies are some of the things that drove the economical development.
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A series of technological developments occurs such as:
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The structures, systems and production ways were transformed in every country and every economical area
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GATT creation. Tariffs are removed.
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The creation of the Organization of American States. This brings more exports, monetary stability, import adjustment and strengthening external payment capacity.
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Creation of The World Trade Organization and officialization of the FTA between México, USA and Canada removed the trade barriers.
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Globalization was born in order to reduce production costs to give the producer the ability to be more competitive in a global environment. Provides an international free trade zone.
