Chapter 14 (first half)

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     I felt very frustrated with this chapter because I felt like the reading was a lot for me, mostly because it was the first time reading a big chunk but I hope to get better. But besides that my takeaways from this chapter was learning about the trades, especially the spice trade, fur trade, and the silver trade. I found the small part where it went into the Mountain of Silver pretty interesting, another note would be the maps were great visual to understand the trading routes. 

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