Tea, silk, and porcelain were traded for wool, tin, lead, and silver. Slowly various goods from the East became available to the wealthy elite of Europe. These goods were rare and considered luxury items. During this time porcelain was produced only in China. This shows us that explorers influenced international trade by making items more accessible to places all around the world!
Texas would be less prosperous and would have less number of cities being more rural.
Explanation:
The founding of the oil industry in Texas changed the state completely.
It had previously been one of the most stubbornly farming areas of the country where the whole population had been generational peasants and they were not looking to change that for long either.
This was until the oil was found and many manumitting and mining towns were set up which offered better jobs to many and took over the farms.
This would all not happen and the state would not be rich from the oil money instead being an agrarian economy with many Spanish speakers and in general not as much in bigger towns,
