A late-eighteenth-century transition - Change #1: Toward the New Consumerism

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What happened in terms of consumerism from 1500 onward? Name examples.

A wider range of consumers began to be involved.
- Attachment to coffee and tea spread from the Middle East and from East and Central Asia, respectively, to other regions.
- Tea became one of those sought-after Asian products that fueled the exchange with European traders for New-World silver, while the taste spread to the Americas as well.
- Sugar of course was an even greater draw, with hosts of Europeans eagerly seeking the products by the sixteenth century.

What did Dutch urbanites benefit from? What did they do with it? What's the history behind it?

Dutch urbanites in the seventeenth century, benefiting from their nation's success in global trade, indulged in a buying frenzy for tulips and pictures of tulips, one of the first consumer crazes in history.
Tulips became a Dutch staple in the process, but the initial focus had actually been imported from the Ottoman empire.

What supported a growth in table service?

By the late seventeenth century, popular interest in coffee, tea, and sugar was also supporting a growth in table service - in pots, spoons, cups and saucers.
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What was the result of the expansion of household items and other goods?

The result was a level of consumer expectations and networks of shops to service these expectations that were generating a real revolution in modern consumerism by the eighteenth century, and this would in turn play an additional role in supporting global trade in the future.

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