Roger Crowley

If you were a Portuguese nobleman, you could order a Ming dinner set with your coat of arms from China and have it delivered rather slowly, a long period of time.

And silver becomes the currency.

It becomes the dollar of its day.

So we can start to see the emergence of all kinds of trends which are very familiar to us now out of this wonderfully rich period.

I wouldn't say it was wonderful in terms of the fates of many of the peoples of the world, but it was the springboard for the modern world in many ways.

Well, the book that relates to this one is just called Spies, the 16th century contest which shaped the modern world.

Thank you very much, Dan.