Interdependence-nations relying on each other, global just means world wide. A lot of people depend on other people for imports of food and other stuff, like how West Berlin depended on the Air Lift back in the Cold War.
<span>They prospered through trade. The sea was dangerous to their wealth and survival. The Minoans were involved in the tin trade, dangerous in the Bronze Age. Tin, alloyed with copper which may have come from Cyprus, was used to make bronze. They dealt in saffron reaped from a kind of crocus.</span>
