1450-1750 global commerce intro
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AP World, Commerce, 1450-1750TRANSCRIPT
Empires and Commerce
1450-1750
CHANGE in Global Commerce
SILVER!• Silver was THE ITEM that really began
GLOBAL TRADE• Chinese demand for silver and new silver
mines in Spanish America & Japan led to global trade movement.
CHANGE in Global Commerce
TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE began• Massive movement of people through the
slave trade from coasts of West Africa to the Americas led by Europeans.
• Slave trade to fill demand for labor in plantation agriculture in the Caribbean, Brazil, and N America.
• Part of the Atlantic trade triangle
“New” trade connections
FUR TRADE• Luxury furs exported from Russia and North
America .• Variety of animal furs and varieties of
peoples involved in the trade.
New trading empires
EUROPEAN TRADING POST EMPIRES• European nation-states controlled ports and
territories in the Americas, Africa, South & Southeast Asia
• Increasingly Europeans carried the trade goods of maritime trade…even the routes that had existed before European arrival
Spanish Empire 1600s
Portuguese Empire 1600s
Dutch East India Company
JAPAN
• After a period of contact with Europeans, Japanese isolate themselves from outsiders while profiting from the silver trade and keeping “watch” on outsiders.
Make a map that has the main trade routes +
Oceans- Atlantic, Indian, & PacificSeas- Mediterranean, Caribbean, & BlackEmpires- Label each separately…–Qing (Strayer p644)–Mughal (645)–Ottoman (647) –Russian (682)–Spanish, French, Dutch, English, Portuguese
territories. (682)