Commerce and culture

Commerce was a big factor and change for daily life. Merchants became distant social group, they were viewed with suspicion by others because of there impulse for wealth without them producing anything themselves. When people bought products that possessed luxury goods from a distance were seen as powerful societies, they also conveyed status in communities. Trade also transformed political life. They were controlling and the taxing trade motivated the creation of states. Because trade became so popular it also brought many disease. These disease traveled through the trade routes of Eurasia. People began to be exposed to to unfamiliar disease for which they had little immunity. I think trade was very important but I think people were not ready to deal with all the diseases that came along the trade route. I feel that people were not as interested in thinking that diseases would be brought instead they were more focused on the products arriving to them.