chapter 14 p687-699 and chapter 14 documents

The four centuries of the slave trade millions of Africans underwent some experience but the numbers varied over time. The 16th century slave exports from Africa averaged fewer than 3,000 annually. Those years the Portuguese were interested in the African gold, spices, and textiles. In Asia they became more involved in transporting African goods including slaves from African port to another. Later in the 17th century the pace picked up as the slave trading became highly competitive with the British, Dutch and French contesting the earlier Portuguese monopoly. Century and a half had 1700 and 1850 marked there high point of slave trade as the plantation economics of America boomed.



Chapter 14 documents
There were 4 documents and I thought document 14.4 The slave trade and the kingdom of Asante was interesting to me. The slave trade of Asante did not have much of an effect as it did in Kongo. The region known as the gold coast, the kingdom of Asante arose in the 18th century occupying about 100,000 square miles and 3 million people. It was a powerful state and heavily invested in slave trade.

chapter 14

There was not just the spice trade of Eurasia but also silver trade that was given birth to the global network of exchange. "Silver went round the world and made the world go round" says one of the historians. In the mid sixteenth century silver was discovered big around Bolivia and in Japan, then suddenly increased in metal. Spanish America had 85% of the worlds silver during the modern ear. Manila the capital of the Philippines was the annual Spanish shipment of silver which was drawn from the rich mines of Bolivia that was transported to Acapulco in Mexico and shipped across the pacific to the philippines.

intro to part 4 + chapter 13

Europeans ruled the Americans and controlled the worlds sea routes. The political and military power in mainland Asia and Africa was very limited. China and Japan strictly controlled Europeans missionaries and merchants who operated in their societies. Islam was the most rapidly spreading faith in much of asia and africa and in Europe, india and China.
People in fact continued to live in long ways and their societies operated according to traditional principles. Kings ruled Europe and male landowning aristocrats remained on top of social hierarchy.

Chapter 13
The great dying; people lived in the mesoamerican and Andean zones which were dominated by the Aztec and Inca empires. Isolation from the Afro Eurasian world and lack of animals meant that the absence of acquired immunities to the old world diseases like small pox, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria and yellow fever. When they came into contact with the European and African diseases, Native American people died in numbers in many cases up to 90% of the population.

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