How did transcontinental contact lead to the emergence of a global exchange in the 1500s?
Claim:
The contact between Afroeurasia and the Americas in the 1500s influenced trade through the exchange of new agricultural products of which changed the diets of individuals as well as the use of peoples for slaves in the Americas due to the many plantations used to cultivate crops for export, both of which increased trade, for the purpose of increasing income and economic growth, benefitting only the Europeans through the use of African people and the brutal treatment of Native Americans, generating a one-sided global exchange between Europe and the Americas.
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The discovery of new agricultural products in the Americas such as corn and …show more content…
Due to the fact that the Native Americans that worked for the Spanish landowners we not able to keep up “the output of the mines or the plantations” the Native American labour was replaced with enslaved Africans people many of whom were taken brutally (Slavery Contract). In order to keep up with the raising demand of crops and materials, there began an increase in plantations and mines which eventually lead to the increase of slaves that were traded across the Atlantic. The slaves, for the most part, were shipped to Europe, before being transported to the Americas. Sugar was among many of the heavily grown crops in Spanish America as they imported “8000 slaves per year” to cultivate this crop (Slavery Contract). The slaves, however, that laboured in the mines were intended to collect materials “where gold and silver could be” located (Slavery Contract). The increase in the number of slaves led to unbalance globally between different races displaying the dominance of whites in Europe. As the number of slaves increased in Spanish America and European settlements across America, there was an increase of transatlantic trade between mainly Europe and the New world which therefore created a form of a one-sided trading system across the Atlantic ocean, the beginnings of a bias global
Claim:
The contact between Afroeurasia and the Americas in the 1500s influenced trade through the exchange of new agricultural products of which changed the diets of individuals as well as the use of peoples for slaves in the Americas due to the many plantations used to cultivate crops for export, both of which increased trade, for the purpose of increasing income and economic growth, benefitting only the Europeans through the use of African people and the brutal treatment of Native Americans, generating a one-sided global exchange between Europe and the Americas.
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The discovery of new agricultural products in the Americas such as corn and …show more content…
Due to the fact that the Native Americans that worked for the Spanish landowners we not able to keep up “the output of the mines or the plantations” the Native American labour was replaced with enslaved Africans people many of whom were taken brutally (Slavery Contract). In order to keep up with the raising demand of crops and materials, there began an increase in plantations and mines which eventually lead to the increase of slaves that were traded across the Atlantic. The slaves, for the most part, were shipped to Europe, before being transported to the Americas. Sugar was among many of the heavily grown crops in Spanish America as they imported “8000 slaves per year” to cultivate this crop (Slavery Contract). The slaves, however, that laboured in the mines were intended to collect materials “where gold and silver could be” located (Slavery Contract). The increase in the number of slaves led to unbalance globally between different races displaying the dominance of whites in Europe. As the number of slaves increased in Spanish America and European settlements across America, there was an increase of transatlantic trade between mainly Europe and the New world which therefore created a form of a one-sided trading system across the Atlantic ocean, the beginnings of a bias global