Triangle Trade Network

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Triangle Trade Network

• Atlantic Slave Trade

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Atlantic Slave Trade

• The massive enterprise of buying and selling
  Africans for work in the Americas
• Between1500-1600 almost 300,000 Africans were
  transported to the Americas

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Olaudah Equiano

• The stench of the hold while we were on the coast
  was so intolerably loathsome, that it was
  dangerous to remain there for any time, and some
  of us had been permitted to stay on the deck for
  the fresh air but now that the whole ships
  cargo were confined together, it became
  absolutely pestilential. The closeness of the
  place, and the heat of the climate, added to the
  number in the ship, which was so crowded that
  each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost
  suffocated us. This produced copious
  perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit
  for respiration, from a variety of loathsome
  smells, and brought on a sickness among the
  slaves, of which many died, thus falling victims
  to the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of
  their purchasers.

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Olaudah Equiano

• One day, when we had a smooth sea, and a moderate
  wind, two of my wearied countrymen, who were
  chained together (I was near them at the time),
  preferring death to such a life of misery,
  somehow made through the nettings, and jumped
  into the sea immediately another quite dejected
  fellow, who, on account of his illness, was
  suffered to be out of irons, also followed their
  example and I believe many more would soon have
  done the same, if they had not been prevented by
  the ships crew, who were instantly alarmed.

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Triangular Trade

• Europeans transported manufactured goods to the
  west coast of Africa to buy Africans
• The Africans were transported across the Atlantic
  Ocean and sold in the West Indies
• Merchants then bought sugar, coffee, and tobacco
  and sailed back to Europe

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The Columbia Exchange

• Global Trade

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Columbian Exchange

• Global transfer of food, plants, and animals
  during the colonization of the Americas

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Columbian Exchange

• Ships from American brought back items that
  Europeans had never seen before
• (list at least 3 of these in your notes)

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Columbian Exchange

• Europeans introduced various livestock animals
  into the Americas.
• (you must list these in your notes)

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Commercial Revolution

• The expansion of trade and business that
  transformed European economics during the 16th
  and 17th centuries

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Economics Vocabulary

• Capitalism- an economic system based on private
  ownership and investment of wealth for profit
• Mercantilism- an economic policy where a nation
  seeks to increase their wealth and power by (1)
  obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and
  (2)by selling more goods than they bought
  (favorable balance of trade)