How a Dead Trade Route Created the Modern World | History Rewind

For centuries, the Silk Road connected Europe to Asia. Spices, silk, and ideas flowed overland through Central Asia and the Middle East.

Then the Mongol Empire collapsed. Timur's campaigns devastated the trade routes. The Ottomans conquered Constantinople and sealed the eastern Mediterranean.

And Europe — cut off from the Eastern goods its economies needed to survive — was suffocating.

What happened next wasn't heroic exploration. It was economic desperation. A tiny kingdom called Portugal, with barely a million people, spent eighty years trying to find a way around Africa to reach Asia by sea. And when they finally did, they accidentally triggered the creation of the modern world.

This is the story of how a dead trade route created the world you live in.

Episode 6 of History Rewind.

⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 - Cold Open
0:39 - The Question
0:47 - The Road
2:04 - The Strangling
7:11 - The Desperate Kingdom
7:47 - The Cape
13:04 - The New World
13:43 - The Echo
18:32 - Reflection
21:52 - Next Episode
22:58 - CTA

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