Explain Two Events That Led To Greater Interconnectedness

In global history two events that led to a greater interconnectedness. Systems of interaction between global and the local has been central driving force in world history. Two event that led up to the greater interconnectedness was the expansion of the slave trade and the expansion of the Islam from the western Mediterranean to India. These two events was wrapped up in the Age of Exploration.
The first event that led up to the greater interconnectedness was the expansion of the slave trade. The expansion of the slave trade The vast majority of those who were enslaved and transported to the New World, mainly on the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent who had been sold by other West Africans to Western European slave traders. The expansion of slavery was often a by-product of empire building as a dominant power turned its prisoners of war into slaves through conquest. However, from empire to empire there was considerable variation in slave's' legal status and prospects for incorporation into the polity; likewise, within a …show more content…
The Islamic side of the Mediterranean was the terminus of ancient trading networks between East and West Asia, and the Muslim states controlled other routes along which precious commodities were carried back and forth.Conversion to Islam also linked these centers, culturally as well as economically, to the merchants and ports of India, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Islam made slow progress in areas such as central Java, where Hindu-Buddhist dynasties contested its spread. They helped because this was the way they were able to trade and go to the places that they later on was going to invade. This is how the expansion of the Islam from the western Mediterranean to India led up the the greater