Examine the patterns of trade and exchange that developed between Asia, Europe, and the world during the early modern period (1500-1800 AD).

For this paper you will read Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, by Timothy Brook. This book examine the patterns of trade and exchange that developed between Asia, Europe, and the world during the early modern period (1500-1800 AD). The goal of this paper is to use the examples discussed by Brook to analyze the forms of “globalization” that were emerging during this period.