ECON 1000 Lecture 6: 1030 Lecture 1 - Introduction to Management

• School: York University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 1000
• Professor: Andrea Podhorsky

Document Summary

Adam smith, in wealth of nations: there is a certain propensity in human nature to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. : evidence of prehistoric trade in many societies. In return wheat, pork, glass ivory and other materials were imported: the greek trading zone expanded around the mediterranean and into africa and the. Rome: again, an economy based on agriculture, mining and trade. Asia and eventually all the way to europe: a long period of turmoil was followed by the establishment of the song dynasty around. 960c. e: this saw the development of things like the compass, gunpowder and woodblock printing. 1270-1368: drought, economic disputes and ethnic tension led to the overthrow of khan rule and the. In general over its history to the mid-1600s china had grown in population, territory and economy. While some industry and a great deal of mining took place it was still largely an agricultural economy supervised by a large cadre of bureaucrats.