{% extends 'base.html' %} {% block title %}annotation{%endblock%} {% block title_num %}
Globalization , the ever-increasing interconnectedness of the world , is not a new phenomenon , but it accelerated when western Europeans discovered the riches of the East . During the Crusades -LRB- 1095-1291 -RRB- , Europeans developed an appetite for spices , silk , porcelain , sugar , and other luxury items from the East , for which they traded fur , timber , and Slavic people they captured and sold -LRB- hence the word slave -RRB- . But when the Silk Road , the long overland trading route from China to the Mediterranean , became costlier and more dangerous to travel , Europeans searched for a more efficient and inexpensive trade route over water , initiating the development of what we now call the Atlantic World . In pursuit of commerce in Asia , fifteenth-century traders unexpectedly encountered a `` New World '' populated by millions and home to sophisticated and numerous peoples .
Please check all the words that can be used instead of the target word in the same context. Note that the morphology of the target (third person singular, past tense etc.) is considered to be applied to the candidate automatically in the process of paraphrasing.