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Slave trade

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Europeans Enter Africa People of Europe were able to reach sub-Saharan Africa around 1450 when the Portuguese invented the caravel, a ship that should sail into the wind. This ship allowed sailors to sail back up the western coast of Africa and back to Europe. The Portuguese set up trading posts along the African beaches trading with slaves and gold, trading habits that were originally done by the Arabs and Africans. The Portuguese shipped the slaves back to Spain and Portugal where they worked on the sugar plantations.

Ch 18

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Chapter 18 Study guide 1. Sugar cane was first grown in the West Indies by Spanish colonists shortly after 1500, but after 1600 A: The English and French grew tobacco there. 2. Although tobacco was a New World plant long used by Amerindians, A: tobacco use became enormously popular in Europe. 3. In order to make tobacco trade profitable, European governments used chartered companies, A: private investors with trade monopolies in colonies. 4. Which of the following does not describe the Dutch West India Company? A: It was never very profitable. 5. The expansion of sugar plantations in the West Indies required A: a sharp increase in the African slave trade. 6. The cultivation and production of sugar can best be described as

Chapter 20 Review Sheet

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Chapter 20 Review REVIEW QUESTIONS: How did the arrival of Portugal (and other Europeans) affect West Africa? Why did the slave trades arise and how did they affect Africa? What demographic patterns do historians see in the slave trade? How was the slave trade organized and who controlled the trade? How did African slavery differ from American slavery? How did the slave trade influence African politics and the rise of states? What developments occurred in East Africa? What popular movements collided in South Africa and with what results? How did African cultures, religions, and institutions change during this period? VOCABULARY:

Chapter 14

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New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market Chapter Outline An Age of Exploration and Expansion ? ? ?Islam and the Spice Trade growing portion of the spice trade was being transported in Muslim ships major impetus for the spread of Islam was the foundation of a new sultanate at Malacca in Indonesia Islands Malacca was founded was Paramesvara Malacca became a tributary of the Chinese Paramesvara converted to Islam, to enhance ports ability to participate in Muslim dominated trade Malacca became leading economic power in region and helped promote spread of Islam ? ? ?The Spread of Islam in West Africa Muslim trade and religion continued to expand south of Sahara into Niger River Valley in West Africa ? ? ??????The Empire of Songhai

American Pageant 15th Edition - Chapter 2 Outline

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Chapter 2- The Planning of English America Most of the new world had been changed profoundly as the seventeenth century dawned. North America was largely unclaimed (the area over Mexico). And the Spanish had set up much of the control in Central and South America. England?s Imperial Stirrings England didn?t put in much effort to colonize as the Spanish did. After King Henry VIII broke with Church he launched the English Protestant reformation. At first England and Spain were allies but after the Protestant Elizabeth ascended to the English throne a rivalry with Catholic Spanish intensified. Catholic Ireland, originally under English rule sought help from Spain but they failed and England put protestants there. Many English developed contempt for the ?savage? Irish.

APUSH Ch. 16-18 Notes

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Ch. 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860 Slavery gets new life (death): As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin ? slavery was reinvigorated Members of the planter aristocracy ? dominated society and politics in the South All of the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom - cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840 the South produced more than half the entire world?s supply of cotton. 75% of the British supply of cotton came from the South quick profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise But the South did not reap all the profits from the cotton trade Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because ? its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land
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