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January 23, The African Slave Trade

1) Where and what industries and why  "Indentured servitude,( choice, contract, option)" another option for developing a labor force      - No money for passage      -Agreement with someone      - Contract family makes, in return a " indentured servitude" is given which last 7 years What was different about slavery in America?       - North America inherited status     - Fewer people arriving     - long- standing human practice in WW1     - sense of ownership, physical possessions              ~ conquest was controlled              ~ Debt              ~ Captured transport              ~ Associated with race and skin color African Institution       - In South America and North America    

January 18th Strayer, Chapter 14 (First Half)

Euro's in Indian Ocean Trade Network  -originally - Euros wanted in on IOTN  Trading Post Empire (Taxing)    Extortion/ piracy                                                                -Taking ones ship                                                               -Small group of chiefenss   -Piracy                                  -Spain colonized Phillippines  -Extraction of one place to another                    Fur                  ...

January 11th Strayer, Intro to Part 4 The Early Modern Era

Pg.546 - The Early Modern Era, from 1450-1750.  Globalization - Lay in the oceanic journeys of European explorers and the European conquest and colonial settlement of the Americas. -  The Atlantic Slave Trade linked Africa to the Western Hemisphere. -  While the global silver trade allowed Europeans to use New World metals to buy their way into ancient Asian trade routes.