Focus: Explore economic transformations of the early modern era (1450-1750)
Examine the origins of the transatlantic slave trade.
Origins of transatlantic slave trade.
- Portuguese traders import African slaves into America in mid 1500s.
-Spanish & portuguese required cheap labor for mining & plantation system.
-Used Native americans as enslaved labor initially.
- Shifted to african enslaved labor due to American resistance to European diseases and knowledge of mining and cultivation of sugar.
Transatlantic slave trade
-from 1500-1800 slaves trade transported 10-15 million Africans to the Americans.
-Portuguese introduced African slavery into the Americans.
-African slavery became a foundation for economic transformations of the early Modern period.
Africa and global trade
- West African Kingdoms derived their wealth from the gold trade .
-West African Kingdom supplied gold to kingdoms of Europe.Asia,to central Asia.
-From 900-1500, West African Kingdom had a monopoly on gold.
African trade & slavery
- West African Kingdoms participated in intra- African slave trade.
-Inter- tribal Warfare led to slavery within Africa.
-With trans-regional trade, African slaves endured forced migration to other parts of the world.
The documents for chapter 14 we had to see the image and analyze it . The illustration in 14.1 we see Tea and Porcelain in Europe in the eighteenth century tea was becoming popular as well as the Chinese teacups.Tea came to Europe in the sixteenth century in Portuage ships. Tea was expensive and only the wealthy were able to have it. the price dropped and the supply increased and by the 18th century is had spread in Europe. Tea wasn't the only thing that became popular the Chinese tea cups without handles became poplar as well. Like many other porcelain products they had been made by Chinese artisans.
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