What I learned from this chapter of the reading was that the Atlantic Slave Trade was not the only thing during that century that created networks from one country to another. As the book states, it was only one component of the international networks. The Spanish America got silver from the mines and this was a great treasure in which people used to buy other goods like spices. One movie I could think of the relates to the Spanish coming into Mexico is The Road to El Dorado. The movie focuses on the journey of two young men who are arrested by Hernán Cortez and taken on the journey to Mexico but throughout the journey they ended up being lost. They made their way through the City of Gold which is where Hernan Cortez was headed.
Fur was a good from North America from the Native Americans and also from Siberia. The Russians looked a lot into the fur that the Siberians were making because it would completely benefit them.
I also learned that the European goods weren't really popular in the Asia Markets, and I think this is because it was two different setting with two separate needs.
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