Cahokia: an ancient Native American city (c. 600–1400 CE)，The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture Mercantilism: Mercantilism is an economic doctrine，dominated Western European economic policy and discourse from the 16th to late-18th centuries. Headright System is a legal grant of land to settlers. Headrights are most notable for their role in the expansion of the thirteen British colonies in North America; the Virginia Company of London gave headrights to settlers
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Carolina and Georgia when the British Army evacuated those states. Some of these people remained free‚ while others ended up being re-enslaved in the British Caribbean’ . The result of the American revolutionary war ensued the British Empire attempting to recover the lost profitability of the slave trade in already enslaved colonies such as the Caribbean through the production of alternative ‘tropical staples’. However‚ this ultimately lead to the ‘failure of the British West Indies… (as it’s attempt to)
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The Columbian Exchange The Columbian exchange created an enormous interchange of various political ideas‚ cultures‚ foods‚ diseases‚ animals‚ and people between the old world and the new world‚ this give and take relationship caused many changes some positive and some negative between the two areas and help redistribute resources between the two hemispheres. There were many positive things that happened as a result of the Columbian exchange. Potatoes and corn became major food sources for Europeans
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What Drove the Sugar Trade? In the late 1600s and 1700s sugar growing took firm hold in the Caribbean. France and Britain competed for domination of the Sugar Trade. By 1655‚ Britain was the biggest sugar trader. France passed Britain as the biggest Caribbean sugar trader in 1740 (oi). The Sugar Trade was driven by many factors. Some of which are capital‚ slavery and complementing industries. Money was‚ and still is‚ very important. Sugar was even called white gold by British colonists during
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in North America‚ and how did native peoples resist colonization? Spain established colonies in Central America‚ the Caribbean islands‚ and Mexico to increase their wealth and power. The native people resisted colonization by trying to fight back. 2. How did the Chesapeake colonies support the aims of British mercantilism? The Chesapeake colonies supported British mercantilism with their tobacco crops and the Bay’s rich fisheries. These served as highly valuable to Britain. 3. Why did
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Key points to know How Europe was prepared‚ by events and circumstances‚ to spring forth and devour the world‚ resulting in a modern world in which “European” means “modern.” That the preparation Europe experienced meant it was pretty much of a “no contest”; the Europeans were ready‚ and the rest of the world wasn’t. It wasn’t a Manichean contrast of “good” and “bad.” There were no idyllic societies. Period. (This does not mean that people and individual acts could not be seen as good or bad.)
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later controlled the flow of gold to Europe. * Christopher Columbus: After Vasco da Gama reached India by rounding the Cape of Good Hope‚ Columbus decided to just sail West without knowing the presence of the “New World.” His landing in the Caribbean in 1492 ushered in the era of European exploration and domination of the New World. * Bartholomew Diaz: In 1488‚ Bartholomew
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sugar industry and brought slaves from Elmina and Luanda (also seized from Portugal)to Brazil and the West Indies. * 50. When Portugal reconquered Brazil in 1654‚ the Dutch sugar planters brought the Brazilian system to the French and English Caribbean Islands. B0.Sugar and Slaves * 10. Between 1640 and the 1680s colonies like Guadeloupe‚ Martinique‚ and particularly Barbados made the transition from a tobacco economy to a sugar economy. In the process of doing so‚ their demand for labor caused
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world as well as colonization in the Americas. Following the discovery‚ European nations set out to colonize this “New World” in order to produce goods and find riches for their mother countries. This was known as the beginning of mercantilism in the Atlantic. Mercantilism is defined as “a system that saw the world’s economy as fixed‚ meaning that any one country’s wealth came at the expense of other countries” (Tignor‚ 482). Colonization of the new
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The discovery of a new world by Christopher Columbus in 1492 opened up new opportunities for trading‚ conquest‚ and political success and wealth in the later years. Spain and England found their way to the Americas (by crossing the Atlantic‚ etc.) and established their own colonies‚ which were able to give their nations profits. In order to have the imperial power of Spain and England benefit from their colonial establishments‚ the dependent nations would use their surrounding natural resources which
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