Creative Educational Systems

Synopsis:As a Chinese and Islamic trader trade spices for carpets, we learn why the sailors from the Islamic countries became the middlemen between the Asian and European countries. In the next scene, the Islamic trader is haggling about price (which is now increased 5,000%!) with an Italian merchant, overheard by Christopher Columbus and his parents. Columbus vows to become a rich merchant, against his parents' will, but on his first voyage, his uncle's ship is attacked and destroyed by pirates