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  2. Silent trade - Wikipedia

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    To perform a silent trade, one group of traders would go to a specific location, leave their trading goods and then withdraw to a distance. Then play a drum to signal the other traders that a silent trade was taking place. The other group of traders would then approach and inspect the goods (most commonly salt or gold). If the goods met with ...

  3. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .

  4. Timeline of international trade - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.

  5. Why the Era of Free Trade May Be Coming to an End

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  6. Silent film - Wikipedia

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    A still from 1921's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the highest-grossing silent films Charlie Chaplin, widely acclaimed as one of the most iconic actors of the silent era, c. 1919. A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

  7. History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A trade war therefore does not cause a recession. Furthermore, he notes that the Smoot–Hawley tariff did not cause the Great Depression. The decline in trade between 1929 and 1933 "was almost entirely a consequence of the Depression, not a cause. Trade barriers were a response to the Depression, in part a consequence of deflation." [97]

  8. Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries - Wikipedia

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    Irigoin, Alejandra. "The end of a silver era: the consequences of the breakdown of the Spanish peso standard in China and the United States, 1780s–1850s." Journal of World History 20.2 (2009): 207–244. excerpt; Irigoin, Alejandra. "Rise and demise of the global silver standard." in Handbook of the History of Money and Currency (2020): 383 ...

  9. Reviving Hollywood glamor of the silent movie era, experts ...

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    A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of pieces and ...