Title: In what ways was the world connected by 1800? Was this/were these positive or negative? Did different peoples have different experiences with this?
Introduction
When you think of how the world is connected you think of travel. By 1800 the ways of travel led to so many discoveries throughout the worlds regions with the movement of people, the trade of goods, and the new ideas. With these discoveries came both good things and bad.
Over several centuries many barriers that divides the world began to fall. The Europeans traveled the world, made new discoveries an defeat the new lands. With these discoveries came new ways of trade. Culture began to change and slowly this started to bring the world together.
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Salvery forced the movement of millions of Africans to the Americas. There had been between 9-10 million African slaves sent out west. By the eighteenth century they saw the greatest benefit from the slave trade.
Because trade is a two-way street this meant that Africans were caught by other Africans and then were traded to Europeans in exchange for goods like fine metals, textiles, tools and guns. Slaves were a considered a very valuable property.
In many places, slaves were one of the only foundations for private wealth due to land was usually owned by the state. Europeans ports like Bristol and Nantes built a new age of commercial wealth and slavery. New lands were opened as African slave labor made it possible to work.
Some slaves worked in the houses or skilled crafts work but most of them were farmed laborers. In the Caribbean and Brazil, most of them planted, harvested and processed sugar, working almost year round and working from sun up to sun down.
It was one of the most horrific times in history because these slaves were removed from their culture and their homes. They were thought of nothing but property and this de-humanized them.
Introduction
When you think of how the world is connected you think of travel. By 1800 the ways of travel led to so many discoveries throughout the worlds regions with the movement of people, the trade of goods, and the new ideas. With these discoveries came both good things and bad.
Over several centuries many barriers that divides the world began to fall. The Europeans traveled the world, made new discoveries an defeat the new lands. With these discoveries came new ways of trade. Culture began to change and slowly this started to bring the world together.
By 1800, a world of travel …show more content…
Salvery forced the movement of millions of Africans to the Americas. There had been between 9-10 million African slaves sent out west. By the eighteenth century they saw the greatest benefit from the slave trade.
Because trade is a two-way street this meant that Africans were caught by other Africans and then were traded to Europeans in exchange for goods like fine metals, textiles, tools and guns. Slaves were a considered a very valuable property.
In many places, slaves were one of the only foundations for private wealth due to land was usually owned by the state. Europeans ports like Bristol and Nantes built a new age of commercial wealth and slavery. New lands were opened as African slave labor made it possible to work.
Some slaves worked in the houses or skilled crafts work but most of them were farmed laborers. In the Caribbean and Brazil, most of them planted, harvested and processed sugar, working almost year round and working from sun up to sun down.
It was one of the most horrific times in history because these slaves were removed from their culture and their homes. They were thought of nothing but property and this de-humanized them.