1.) The desire to find new trade routes to Asia was one of the motivations for European explorations. Europeans were seeking the wealth of Africa and Asia. They wanted profit, they wanted gold. The spice market was also a huge profit of trading and several countries tried to gain control of spice trade. Another motivation was God and religion. Europeans wanted to spread the teachings of the Gospel to other parts of the world. They believed it was their duty to spread the word of God. Lastly, land was another motivation for European explorations. Some rulers, especially the King of Spain, and the King of Portugal, wanted to claim as much land as they could. The more land and money a country owned, the better their chance of domination in Europe. …show more content…
Vasco Da Gama was a Portuguese explorer and the first person to reach India by sea. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, he was determined to find a water route to Asia, but he never did. He accidentally stumbled upon the Americas. Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer, known for being the first person to circumnavigate the planet Earth. Germs, guns, and steel were the advantages the Europeans have over the native people. Europeans brought diseases that the natives lacked immunity to. These diseases killed about eighty percent of the natives. They also had firearms and steel weapons. Although bows and arrows were much more accurate and easier at the time, guns were still advantageous. …show more content…
It took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th to the 19th centuries. It was a trade of human beings from African societies who were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. About 1.8 million people died during the Atlantic Slave Trade due to harsh conditions on the ship. Furthermore, many others perished during the process of capture and transport to the African coast done by the middle men. Slaves were kept in dungeon fortresses and suffered horrid living conditions while waiting to be sent out to sea on boats headed for America. Both on the forts and the ships, they were kept in dirty, dark rooms with little moving space and almost no food and drink. They were usually kept in chains and forced to lie on their backs. The transatlantic slave trade is sometimes known as the "Triangular Trade" because it was trade among three ports or regions. The voyages were from Europe to Africa, from Africa to the Americas, and from the Americas back to Europe. The raw materials and natural resources like rice, tobacco, cotton and sugar that were found in the Americas were brought to Europe. Europe then brought manufactured products such as cloth, beads and guns to Africa in exchange for slaves who were brought to the Americas. This voyage impacted the world. Africa became a permanent part of the interacting Atlantic world and millions of people were
Q6. During the time, many Latin American countries were slowly trying to find their way to a democracy. A democracy is a government by the people. A democratic way of life includes practice such as free elections, citizen participation, majority rule, minority rights, and a constitutional government. Many nations would begin to follow the democratic practices as well as beginning to accept their own democratic forms of government; however, to achieve a democratic government it would take years. The struggle for democracy in other nations would occur well beyond the 21st century. DUring this time, countless nations were breaking free from authoritarian rule and turning to democracies instead. More specifically, it would spread widely throughout
Guns and steel helped the Europeans fight in an easier way. The guns were lighter and more easy to carry around. They were also easier to aim. Also, steel could be shaped in many different ways to form spears or swords. The Europeans spread deadly germs like smallpox and measles to people who did not have the antibodies to fight them off. This wiped out most of the population of those people. Lastly, natural resources provided important materials. An animal like a horse was a scary large animal who could easily fright many people who are not used to seeing horses. A horse also provided transportation that was quicker than walking. Other animals provided fur, and food which was also very helpful. In order to fight with swords you needed them to have the perfect point and shape. Natural resources like coal and trees made this possible by providing heat to shape the metal. In conclusion, by using great battle tactics like the Europeans did, it is possible to conquer from
The slaves were treated absolutely malevolently by the Europeans without any respect or thought towards them. Often without hesitation, the men tortured and abused the slaves. For example, commanders often cut off the legs and arms of defiant slaves to prevent them for trying to rebel, as well as to terrify the rest of the slaves, as shown by Document 2. It is truly terrible that people felt that it was necessary to sever the limbs of the poor slaves. The ones that had to suffer this were ultimately disadvantaged for the rest of their lives because of this. In Document 3, it was discussed that the slaves had to suffer terrible conditions such as small, cramped areas with barely enough room to breathe. It also said in Document 4 that many of
The Mongolians were tricky people. Forced out of there homelands, it made them thrash and slash there way to the top. They concorde almost all of Asia, But people still say there ravenous people were the worst thing to happen to all of the country. That they were soulless monsters and killed for fun. But no they weren't they had to kill they had no other way of getting supplies. Plus half of the stuff the did like the Pax mongolia helps with so many things that were beneficial in the future. Like trade, The Silk Road was able to spread religion and technology and so many other things that connected the rest of the world. Plus there battle tactics are still somewhat used today like pairing up in various groups and have each little group have a
1. The historical thinking skill practice during the guided practice and in the DBA was sourcing. We practiced it by answering sourcing questions that were written in the front page of the DBA packet. The first time the “teachers” helped us source the first document and then we had to do it in groups or by ourselves with the other document.
The Europeans wanted to explore for many different reasons. I will be explaining what thesis reasons are and how they helped them. One of the biggest reasons was that they wanted to find a new route to Asia. What happened is that the Turkish cut Europe off by reclaiming Constantinople. The second reason was that they wanted to travel seeking to find gold, silver... Gold and silver were no longer found in European mines. So they had to find a different source and at the end they did. The third reason was to spread their religion. Monarchs who promoted the exploration believed that they had to spread the Christian Religion around the world. Some other reasons where:
The Atlantic Slave Trade caused many important effects on the involved parts of the world from 1492 to 1750. In both Africa and the Americas, there were large trade profits from the slave trade. For example, the triangular trade system that the Americas and Africa were a part of brought slaves to the Americas, and also indirectly provided Africa with European manufactured goods, like guns. The use
The slave trade was responsible for bringing millions of slaves over to the America’s for labor and production of certain commodities such as cotton. At first, the Europeans just took trips over there and would trade with tribe leaders in Africa like weapons for instance, for some of their people. The people they traded were usually people from a rival tribe or something. However, as America tends to get, the Europeans got greedy and really started to take people by the thousands. Many people did not survive the journey because there are hundreds of people packed in small areas. This was a breeding group for disease to run rampant which claimed the life of about 25% of slaves taken to the Americas. The Atlantic slave trade, and slavery as a
It was the British that developed the Atlantic slave system known as the ‘Triangular Trade’. African and Arab slave traders brought slaves to slave markets on the West African coast. They would then be bought by European slave traders. These slave traders bought goods from Europe which exchanged for the slaves. The slaves were then transported to the Americas on a journey known as the ‘Middle Passage’. Between 1700 and 1807, around 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic. Roughly 15% of those transported died on the journey. The conditions on board the slave ships were horrific. Throughout the journey the slaves were chained together by their hands and feet and they were often kept below deck in the dark. In 1788, a slave ship called ‘The Brookes’ was carrying over 600 slaves from Africa to America. This was despite the fact that the ship was designed to carry only 451 passengers.
The Atlantic slave trade was the biggest deportation in history. Often called the first system of globalization was the Atlantic slave trade. This well-known system is associated with triangular trade. This was a three-leg voyage of trading between three continents. First, the ships from Western Europe left and transported their goods to Africa. These goods were weapons, gunpowder, rum, and other manufactured textiles. After arriving in Africa, the goods were traded for slaves. These slaves included men, women, and children. They were taken from their homes, striped of their belongings, and chained up. Then, they were ready to be sold. Many tried to escape, but if they were captured they would be ferociously punished. The most common punishment was whipping. These victims were severely whipped and in some occasions, killed. On the second leg, the slaves crossed the Atlantic Ocean under the deck of the ships. These horrific voyages could last anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. This is commonly called the Middle Passage because it is the middle leg
Western Europeans were motivated to explore and colonize the wider world because of their thirst for adventure and exploration. Another reason that motivated Europeans to explore was because of internal and political conflicts that were going on at home, and also the fact that Europe was running out of natural resources like forests. Western Europeans were able to explore for one main reason and that was their highly sophiscated technology that was become more advanced each day. A more specific technological advancement that allowed them to explore were there skills when it came to building ships and the compass which allowed them to see what direction they were going while they were on their voyage. Exploration and discovery was so attractive
Once individuals think of trade they usually visualize the exchanging of goods or services for a profit. However, during the seventeenth to nineteenth century, the idea of “trade” seem to have an altered definition. Millions of women, men and children were forced out of their African homelands and transported across the Atlantic to be sold as labors and work under horrific conditions. The Transatlantic slave trade sometimes known as the Triangular slave trade because of its three-sided based voyages from Europe to Africa, Africa to North America, and North America back to Europe. The transatlantic slave trade said to be the biggest form of deportation in history. It transported the estimation of ten to fifteen million Africans over the Atlantic
The transatlantic slave trade played a pivotal role in European nations and greatly impacted the economy financially. The transatlantic slave trade also known as the triangular trade was the network of three continents where men, women and children of African background were enslaved and deported from their homes. The trade itself had three steps. Ships with goods left Western Europe to leave to Africa where they exchanged them for slaves. Goods would include of weapons, gunpowder, textile pearls and other manufactured goods. Exchange of these goods for slaves could take a week to several months. Then Africans were transferred to America where they were sold there for goods including rice, tobacco and cotton. This trade route has been
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was a transportation of mostly West African slaves over a period of three and a half centuries across the Atlantic Ocean to America and Europe. An estimated twelve million men, women, and children were taken from their African homelands to be used as slaves. The slave trade provided a great labour force for America and both the United States and African economies became increasingly reliant on European trade as America was receiving free labour and Africa was selling off their own people for goods. This resulted in a huge impact on the imperial and economical expansion of both
The slave ships came from Europe, which is part of the bigger context of the Triangular Trade, and gathered in 600 or more slaves in Africa as it traveled to the New World to force the Africans to perform slave labor. In total around 10-16 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic in terrible conditions. To start with the voyage consisted of 3 to 4 months of the African slaves having to sit chained and crammed in rows, shoulder to shoulder, covered with the horrific odors of urine and vomit. During these months the enslaved Africans were fed only once or twice a day and were brought onto the deck for limited times for fresh air. While receiving the limited intervals of time that they could see the world many African slaves decided that this was the prime time to try to make an escape from this miserable treatment. On the ship, many slaves attempted suicide, jumped overboard, or refused to eat. Leading to at least 2 million enslaved Africans dying while being transported across the Atlantic. Statistics showing that for every 100 slaves transported, 40 slaves died in Africa or during the Middle Passage. Though self inflicted harm wasn’t the only reason