Europe ’s maritime dominance and the opening of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans had major consequences in world history. Including creating a new international pool for the basic exchange of foods‚ diseases‚ and a few manufactured products. While this exchange had its high points such as introduction of new crops and new animals to the Americas and other countries it also brought widespread demographic destruction. At the same time Native Americans who had never been brought into contact with the
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Trade and the Columbian Exchange greatly affected the world between 1450 CE and 1750 CE. The Columbian Exchange helped to link the Americas‚ Africa‚ and Europe‚ while huge international trade networks aided in shaping the world. In these trade networks‚ the spice‚ silver‚ slave‚ and sugar trades were especially important in affecting the world. The silver trade became a huge part of the world economy‚ and allowed Europe greater participation in East Asian commerce. Silver was central to world trade
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atrocities is the transatlantic slave trade that occurred from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. The incredible amount of records that exist about the transatlantic slave trade provides great insight into its participants‚ functionality‚ and eventual end. In the first half of the transatlantic slave trade‚ the main participants were the Portuguese merchants. Portugal was the primary European country to take part in African slave trading. The Portuguese purchased slaves for labor on island
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade is the forced transportation of African men‚ women‚ and children to America. They faced cruel and brutal enslavement. Trade was very popular due to people’s greed for gold. The creation of ever-larger sugar plantations and the introduction of other crops such as indigo‚ rice‚ tobacco‚ coffee‚ cocoa‚ and cotton would lead to the displacement of an estimated seven million Africans between 1650 and 1807. War‚ slave raiding‚ kidnapping‚ and politico-religious struggle accounted
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The Transatlantic slave trade and its causes were a major event in European and world history‚ its ongoing spiral of events leaves a major mark on many societies. Europeans greed and power led to the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The cause of all these events was minor‚ and snowballed into the major problems of today. These events shine through to today where discrimination is around every corner and lurking everywhere. The Transatlantic slave trade steered history on a course to discrimination
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The slave trade in its whole lasted a total of four centuries. This buying and selling of people as a product rather than the human beings that they were was not exclusive to African American males. The Transatlantic Slave Trade encompassed many other people such as‚ woman to be used as sex slaves and personal servants‚ children to be used in places such as sweat shops and mills for producing goods and others from all over smaller Western European countries. African Americans were usually the most
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The transatlantic slave trade was the largest horrific forced migration of Africans from their homelands to western hemisphere from 15th to 19th Century. Over twelve million men‚ women and children became the victim of this extreme exploitation. It was one of the terrific assaults in the human history which greatly influenced Africa’s Political and economic state. The purpose of the slave trade was to obtain profit and goods from European traders .Europeans used the slaves for plantations in Americas
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The struggle to end the transatlantic slave trade and slavery was achieved by African resistance and economic factors as well as through humanitarian campaigns. The most prominent abolitionists‚ notably Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce‚ were great publicists. Wilberforce (1759-1833) led the British parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade and slavery. Opinion in Europe was also changing. Moral‚ religious and humanitarian arguments found more and more support. A vigorous campaign
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The Columbian exchange was the trade of raw materials‚ plants‚ culture and many other things from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere and vice versa. Lets break it down by the effects on the West and East. In the West‚ the main groups of people were Native american tribes. European explorers unwittingly brought along plague and small pox which killed off most natives over several decades. European explorers also brought along their techniques of farming‚ hunting‚ fighting‚ city building
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The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease‚ Food‚ and Ideas By: Daniela Espana  The Columbian exchange refers to the exchange of diseases‚ ideas‚ food crops‚ and populations between The Old World and The New World‚ following the voyage to The Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1942. The Old World by which I mean not just Europe‚ but the entire Eastern Hemisphere gained from the Columbian Exchange in a number of ways. Discoveries of new supplies of metals are perhaps the best
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