A 15-17 Not Bad

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• A 15-17 Not Bad
• B 13-14 Could be better
• C 12 Barely good enough to not suck
• D 10-11 Sucks
• F 0-9 YOU FAIL!!!!!

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Chap 18
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Coming Up

• Ottomans
• Sunni Islam
• Centered in Anatolia
• Janisaries / Devshirme
• Safavid
• Shiite
• Persia/Iran
• Mughal
• Islamic empire ruling India

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West Indies

• French English
• tobacco chartered companies
• European indentured servants.
• Spanish- small scale plantation
• Mid-1600-Sugar Production
• Dutch created the archetype of the Brazilian
  sugar plantation
• Spread it to West Indies when expelled from
  Brazil
• Needed large amounts of cheap labor

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Plantation Life

• Grow and process cane
• large plantations
• Plantocracy and lots of slaves- social
  stratification
• specialized tasks
• Rewards and harsh punishments
• Sundays were only time off- cultivate own food
• Short life expectancy
• Tried to end African cultural traditions,
  religions, and languages
• Great whites
• Little whites
• Free blacks
• Children between slave and plantation owner
  usually received freedom (manumission)
• Maroons

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Atlantic Economy

• Capitalism
• government-protected private enterprise created
  to gain profit
• banks, joint-stock companies, stock exchanges,
  and insurance.
• Mercantilism
• state policies that promoted private investment
  in overseas trade and accumulation of capital in
  the form of precious metals.
• chartered companies
• use of military force to pursue commercial
  dominance
• British, the French, and the Portuguese
• The Atlantic Circuit
• Triangular Trade
• Middle Passage 1/6 Died

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The Gold Coast and the Slave Coast

• Relatively equal trading relations
• slaves for firearms
• Dahomey, Oyo, and Asante
• prisoners of war
• Bight of Biafra and Angola
• Kidnapping
• Europe acquired very little African territory
• Dutch Cape Colony
• Portuguese in Angola

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Muslims

• Ottoman Empire
• Morocco- took control of the trans-Saharan trade
  from Songhai
• Some slavery but smaller Larger effect on
  population
• Muslim cultural influences south of the Sahara
• Slave trade had little impact on Africa

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• 1. How did participation in the Atlantic system
  affect the environment in the Americas?
• 2. How did participation in the Atlantic system
  affect social and political development in Africa
  and the Americas?
• 3. What factors led to the development of the
  African slave trade?

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• 4. How and why did Islamic influence in
  sub-Saharan Africa differ from the influence of
  Europeans?
• 5. What effects did slavery have on economic life
  in Africa?
• 6. How did the technological requirements of
  sugar production affect West Indian society?