2. Ginger purchase price per pound $100 $30 $20 $10 $90 $60 $85 $5
EUROPE
$100
1. How much profit did a merchant make off 1lb Asian Ginger in the Middle East?
2. How much profit might a merchant make off 1lb Asian Ginger directly in India?
3. Explain why Europeans searched for a direct route to the Far East.
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3. Gold
Glory
God

4. Improvements in Navigation
HOW WAS IT POSSIBLE?
Improvements in Navigation
Better maps
better ships
INVENTIONS: Astrolabe / Compass
knowledge of wind patterns

5. New Patterns of Trade

6. Columbian Exchange
Over time, contact between Europe and the New World led to the widespread exchange of plants, animals and diseases.
New plants and food helped increase life expectancy in Europe.

7. Effects
Europeans developed a new type of economic policy called Mercantilism
The basic principle of this policy is that a nation’s strength depended on its wealth

8. Effects
A favorable balance of trade became a central goal for many mercantilist countries.
This is when a country sells more goods than it bought from foreign countries
This would increase a nation’s power and weaken its foreign competitors

9. Effects Sugarcane and Tobacco plantations.
European powers wanted to establish colonies in order to control sources of raw materials and provide new markets for manufactured goods.
Sugarcane and Tobacco plantations.

10. Effects
Millions of Natives died as a result of the introduction to European diseases
Native Americans had no natural resistance to diseases such as small pox, measles, influenza and malaria

11. Atlantic Slave Trade triangular trade
A shortage of labor in the Americas led to the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade
triangular trade

12. TRIANGULAR TRADE

13. Triangular Trade

15. African Diaspora
The forced removal of Africans from their homeland led to new communities of Africans throughout the world
African Diaspora refers to the relocation of Africans to other parts of the world, namely the Americas

16. Atlantic Slave Trade
The first leg of the triangle consisted of ships carrying European goods to Africa to be exchanged for slaves.
The second leg, known as the Middle Passage brought Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves
The third leg carried American products such as sugar, tobacco and rice to Europe