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It then shifts to Colonial America, describing Britain’s Navigation Acts and related laws, including the 1660/1663 measures and the 1733 Molasses Act, and their economic effects on imperial trade and shipbuilding.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":20,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/exam/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/effects-of-the-commercial-revolution-colonial-america-and-the-navigation-acts/495388/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/effects-of-the-commercial-revolution-colonial-america-and-the-navigation-acts/495388.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Adam","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-30","2026-10-02",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":29},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What key change defined the commercial revolution in long-distance trade?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"It introduced a new approach to engaging in long-distance trade that enabled broader commercial consequences, pioneered through Phoenicians and Greeks, and it led to shifts in political and economic patterns.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How did the commercial revolution affect cities and specialized work?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It supported the development of trade-focused urban centers that housed crafts and occupational specializations tied to commercial growth, unlike earlier towns that drew trade mainly through privileged consumer elites.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What were the Navigation Acts meant to control in British colonial commerce?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"They governed trade between Britain and its colonies by limiting imperial trade to British ships, and they restricted exports and imports—for example, the 1660/1663 rules and the 1733 Molasses Act that functioned as a protective tariff.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},495388,1792413695,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":19,"category_name":20,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":29,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145,"preview_page_count":4},1374404737137,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","Effects of the Commercial Revolution  \nIn the third and the second millennia B.C. long-distance trade supposedly had the character of an expedition. By the start of the last millennium B.C., however, a new approach to engaging in such trade emerged. Based on the principle of colorization, it was pioneered by the Phoenicians and Greeks, who established colonies along the Mediterranean Sea. The new approach to long-distance trade, known as the commercial revolution, led to changes in a number of political and economic patterns.  \nFor the first time, the planting of colonies in distant lands became possible. The Phoenician settlements in the central and western Mediterranean, such as Carthage, and the slightly later establishment of Greek colonies are early examples, while the settlement of south Arabians in Eritrea around the middle of the last millennium marks the subsequent spread of this sort of commercial consequence to the Horn of Africa. In the third or second millennia B. C., a state such as Egypt might colonize areas outside its heartland, such as Nubia. But this colonization comprised military outposts and ethnic settlements that were planted to hold the contiguous territories of a land empire, not distant localities far separated from the home country.  \nThe commercial revolution constructed the economic basis as well for a new kind of town or city, an urban center that above all serviced trade and was home to the craftsand occupational specializations that went along with commercial development. The urban locations of earlier times commonly drew trade simply because their populations had included a privileged elite of potential consumers. Such towns had arisen in the first place as political and religious centers of the society, they attracted population because power and influence resides there and access to position and wealth could be gained through service to the royal or priestly leadership.  \nWherever the effects of the commercial revolution penetrated over the last millennium B. C., kings and emperors increasingly lost their ability to treat trade as a royalty sponsored activity, intended to preserve the commodities of trade as the privileges of immemorial power and position. Instead, their policies shifted toward controlling geographical accessibility to the products of commerce and to ensuring security and other conditions that attracted and enhanced the movement of goods. No longer could kings rely on agriculturally supported and religiously based claims to an ability to protect their lands and people; now they also had to overtly support the material prosperity of their people compared to other societies. And rather than exerting a monopoly over prestige commodities, as had Egyptian kings of the third and second millennia, and redistributing such commodities in ways designed to reinforce the allegiance of their subjects and enhance the awesomeness of their position, rulers turned to the taxation of trade and to the creation and control of currency, more and more relying on duties and other revenues to support the apparatus of the state. It was no historical accident that the first metal coinage in the world began to be made in eighth-century Anatolia (modern Turkey) and that the use of coins rapidly spread with the expanding commercial revolution. The material bases and the legitimizations of state authority as we know them today had begun to take shape.  \nThe commercial revolution tended also to spread a particular pattern of exchange. The early commercial centers of the Mediterranean most characteristically offered manufactured goods—purple dye, metal goods, wine, olive oil, and so forth—for the raw materials or the partially processed natural products of other regions. As the commercial revolution spread, this kind of exchange tended to spread with it, with the recently added areas of commerce providing new kinds of raw materials or new sources for familiar products of the natural world, and the longer e","cbCaib5znoz8IRBr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib5znoz8IRBr","pdf",1403895,147,"English","# Effects of the Commercial Revolution\n## Colonies and urban centers\n## State authority, taxation, and currency\n## Exchange patterns in the Mediterranean\n# Colonial America and the Navigation Acts\n## Key laws in 1660/1663 and 1733\n## Restrictions on trade and ship ownership","[{\"question\":\"What key change defined the commercial revolution in long-distance trade?\",\"answer\":\"It introduced a new approach to engaging in long-distance trade that enabled broader commercial consequences, pioneered through Phoenicians and Greeks, and it led to shifts in political and economic patterns.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the commercial revolution affect cities and specialized work?\",\"answer\":\"It supported the development of trade-focused urban centers that housed crafts and occupational specializations tied to commercial growth, unlike earlier towns that drew trade mainly through privileged consumer elites.\"},{\"question\":\"What were the Navigation Acts meant to control in British colonial commerce?\",\"answer\":\"They governed trade between Britain and its colonies by limiting imperial trade to British ships, and they restricted exports and imports—for example, the 1660/1663 rules and the 1733 Molasses Act that functioned as a protective tariff.\"}]","Effects of the Commercial Revolution - Colonial America and the Navigation Acts | PDF",1790912200,370]