Chapter Eight Continuation: An American Network: Commerce and Connection in the Western Hemisphere

In this section of the chapter something that they talked about was that the transcontinental interactions within the American web were more modest than those of the Afro-Eurasian hemisphere. Also the most intense areas of exchange and communication occurred within the Mississippi valley, Mesoamerican, and Andean regions. Also another thing that got my attention was that European explorers and travelers along the Amazon and Orinoco rivers of South America reported active networks of exchange that may well have operated for many centuries. This got my attention because it made me think that maybe the day we have that everything started exchanging are the the right ones. I say this because like I said before this explorers and travelers found something else.