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Those who understand the information contained in economic history can better foresee the thunder that will shake the world. History popularization writer Du Junli's new work focuses on 21 kinds of food and commodities, from silk to oil, tracing the global commercial revolution and the formation of the modern world social pattern. Goods have no legs, but they can travel farther than people. Civilization emerged because of exchange, and the world was born because of commerce. In the making of the modern world, commodities became the primary medium and catalyst, with trade creating a global era. The results of commercialization and globalization are astounding. Behind every major event that affects and changes the world is the huge push of the business revolution. With the help of mobile commodities, different ethnic groups, different civilizations, and different concepts collided and communicated, and finally formed today's modern culture and social pattern...

What is ancient times? What is modern? How did the world we live in now come to be? How is our life different from that of our ancestors? So, please follow this book and follow the trajectory of machines and gears, back to past lives, back to ancient times, and back to history. From the bows and arrows of the Stone Age to the wheels of the Bronze Age, humans began their journey from tools to machines. When humans discovered time and tamed it, humans were eventually tamed by time; language differentiates humans from animals, but words reveal the secrets of God. Clocks and printing presses became the most mysterious metaphors about machines and modern times. Clocks create time, printed books eliminate time. The arrival of the printed book gave rise to the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. Starting 200 years ago, textile machines and steam engines opened the door to the industrial age for us. Trains and ships broke down the boundaries of space. The Celestial Empire declined, and the United States became a model of a modern country. War unleashed human fanaticism, but humans were ruthlessly slaughtered by machines. Electric lights eliminate night, telephones eliminate space, and the Internet brings humans into a digital global village. From cars to computers, humans have shaped machines according to their own imagination, and at the same time reshaped humans themselves, making humans more and more like machines until they are replaced by machines. This is modern times.