Throughout the Biological Old Regime, considered to be 1000-1500’s, the world consisted of agriculture and trading networks. The Indian Ocean especially became an important crossroads for global exchange with the majority of the wealth concentrated in Asia, particularly China and India. By examining the first global trade routes, the interactions between different groups of people, and the importance of China’s role in the global economy we will be able to see the first origins of the modern globalized world we know today. During the 1000- 1500’s Asia became the center of an extensive and systematic linkage of global trade. Interactions between multi-cultured people and diverse nations came together at many trading hubs throughout the Indian Ocean. Here India traded cotton colored textiles in exchange for food, gold, silver and other commodities. China manufactured luxurious goods, in particular silk, which became similar to a standard currency in trade and in return sought out preciosities, silver, raw materials and horses. Slaves were also a large market but were not depicted through race they were used as domestic servants to the wealthy and as labor in Africa and surrounding nations. Slaves were seen as permanent children to their owners and never provided with degrading work (Marks, 57). During 650- 1000 Arabian people carried goods, ideas and spread their language and religion throughout Asia, East Africa and Indonesia (Marks, 45). By 1000-1500’s Islam had spread significantly around the world creating a common language (Arabic) for trade and communication between distinct groups of people as well as a set of rules based on the Islamic religion (Marks, 53). In order to become a part of this global exchange many people converted to Islam and inter-married (Marks, 56). The idea of racism had not yet come into existence and no-one supreme race or