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2 Trade and Empire Group B By Rebecca.V., Sam, Natalie,Oscar, Michael & Rebecca.G. Tutor: Chris. Should we be proud of it…………

3 Skills Portuguese Carracks off a Rocky Coast, c.1525, by an unidentified Flemish artist. We were proud of our British Empire. We had a very good sea power

4 Skills 2 MVMV Orange

5 Slavery is a bad way to treat people and it must be stopped. Slaves were used aboard ship and for trading for goods. Slaves were kept all cramped up together in the same place. slavery

6 The slave trade Slaves were traded for tea, gold, opium, cotton, tobacco and sugar Roughly three slaves were worth about 6 gold bars. About 10,000,000 slaves were imported from Africa.

7 Britain wanted tea from China. China wanted silver this cost too much. Britain insisted on using opium instead of silver to buy tea. This led to a long war between China and England.

8 Things we are not proud of How they treated slaves has been a bad thing…. Destroying other countries Causing wars such as the Opium War Things we are proud of We ruled one third of the world Britain brought Christianity to some countries Britain made lots of new discoveries and inventions

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