Latin America and Atlantic World

Social shifts in Latin America

Economics and the Atlantic World

The English Colonies

The Triangle Trade

Mercantilism

Latin America is defined by this time period

The blending of European, African and Native American cultures

Food, faith, family structure and racial identities were affected by the contact sustained over many centuries

Economics and the Atlantic

The Atlantic World The interaction among the four continents on both sides of the

Atlantic Ocean Latin America is a clear part of this world England, France and the Netherlands followed Spain and

Portugal to est. colonies and plantations

The 13 English colonies a ‘colonial backwater’ and an afterthought in the emerging

economic system Cod was the biggest export and very popular and encouraged

colonization in northern

No. America

Economics and the Atlantic

The Triangle Trade Sugar, rum, cod were shipped to Europe and exchanged for

silver, trinkets were shipped to Africa and exchanged for slaves who were then sent to the Americas….

(oversimplification but ..)

Mercantilism European monarchs used raw materials from colonies to manufacture

goods they would sell on the global scale Govts taxed imported products from rival nations Govts also went into business with private companies The corporations created their own laws

Continuities in Global networks of exchange

------1. Religion Islam continues its spread across Sub-

Saharan Africa and into East and Southeast Asia (Indonesia and Philippines)

Buddhism moves across SE Asia and into parts of Central Asia

Hinduism is core in India Those not contacted continue indigenous

faiths

Continuities cont’d

----2. Trade Indian Ocean trade continued to thrive European merchants could only join if they

cooperated with the local rulers of the port cities because they couldn’t dominate this long-established organization

Atlantic trade volume eventually surpassed the Indian Ocean trade

Continuities Cont’d

---3. Agriculture Most people in the world were STILL

farmers ñ most growing just enough for their families to live on with a little left over to sell

Others grew a single crop to be exported for food (initial commercial farming)

Changes occurred because of the flood of new foods from the Americas

Continuities cont’d

---4. Migrations Just before 1492 most mass

migrations had ended--Hawaii inhabited by 900 --Tahiti by c 1300--Bantu Migration near end -- built

Great Zimbabwe