Part 2 More Exploration, The Columbian Exchange & Slave Trade Expansion AD 1450 - 1750 Part 2 More Exploration, The Columbian Exchange & Slave Trade
European Expansion 1450 – 1750 Part 2
Exploration
Reasons For Exploration
Spanish Encomienda System
Native Americans Under Attack
Merchants, Traders, and Cultural Diffusion
The Columbian Exchange If you could have a 10 minute conversation with Columbus before his voyage, what would you tell him?
The Columbian Exchange
A New Kind of Slavery
Atlantic Slave Trade
A former slave trader deals with his past… “I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am” ― John Newton
The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Mercantilism
Mercantilism
Other European Countries Entered the Quest for Routes to India and New Territories to Claim