Section 2 European expansion and slave trade affected the people of Africa. TFEGIY

Trade, Colonies and Mercantilism European trade=economic revolution Capitalism (private ownership & investment-not government.) Joint –stock companies invest in trading posts, &colonies. Mercantilism –Nations prosperity depended on wealth (bullion-Gold and Silver). Establish Colonies Balance of trade Export (sell) more goods than import (buy) high tariffs on foreign goods. Colonies =raw materials & finished goods market

The Ideals of Mercantilism

THE ALANTIC SLAVE TRADE Sugar & Tobacco plantations required workers-cheap Native American #’s dropped –disease enslaved Africans shipped to Americas. Immune to European disease Farming Experience Less likely to escape-no way home Spanish & Portuguese lead trade

THE ALANTIC SLAVE TRADE Triangular trade connected Europe, Africa, & Americas together. European goods to Africa for slaves Slaves to the Americas -middle passage. Merchants buy raw materials and sell in Europe

Slave Ship Plan

“Coffin” Position: Onboard a Slave Ship

Onboard the Slave Ship

Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship

THE ALANTIC SLAVE TRADE Results of Slavery on Africa Started as prisoners of war-evolved into kidnapping Europeans and Africans Profited King Afonso protested African villages lost fittest members, families torn apart, depopulation Example: Benin

Section 2 Review Paying for Europeans for labor upset trade, growing sugarcane was labor intensive, native American population was small due to diseases brought from Europe. These were all reasons why slaves were needed in the __. The Caribbean 17 th century economic theory Mercantilism

Section 2 Review Increased warfare, depopulation of some areas, deterioration of art and culture. All of these were impacts of the__. Slave trade on African society Slaves from Africa were obtained by Europeans from African slave what? merchants.

Section 2 Review The pattern of trade connecting Europe, Africa, and the American continents. Triangular trade Slave owners in the sixteenth century discouraged slaves from having offspring because? Believed that buying a new slave was less expensive then raising a child. Large agricultural estates plantations

Section 2 Review Crop introduced to Europe from Southwest Asia Sugarcane King Alfonso of Congo wrote a letter in 1526 to the king of Portugal describing ? The corruption of the slave trade and how it was depopulating his country. The journey of slaves from Africa to America Middle Passage