A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

by William J. Bernstein

Parameswara

Mamluks

Kaffa.

Prester John,

Alexander VI,

Afonso de Albuquerque.

Fernão de Magalhães and Francisco Serrão,

Malacca.

Aceh,

Fugger family,

Moluccas

Jardine Matheson and Company.