World Civ 5

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drugs

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tobacco, sugar, and coffee (addictives); considered drugs because they were not essential to daily life. (stimulating and addictive); used for medicine

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addictives became available in the west in?

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18th century, became a major part of overseas trade and was no longer a luxury good.

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slaves being transported in 17th and 18th century

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largest amount transported and the farthest distance traveled.

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slaves

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produced the addictives; slaves and addictives became major trading items because it was a large profit for the buyers

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sugar trading path

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started from india, and spread west

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sugar in eurpoe

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very rare because sugar only grows in trpoical regions

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europe began growing sugar

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in small islands surrounding europe using slaves for labor

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san tome

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transported sugar to brazil

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brazil

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used natives to grow sugar but many died from disease so africans were imported.

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slaves in brazil

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1600; thousands of slaves were imported, they became more than the population of brazilians,

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the caribbean islands

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became the biggest producer of sugar, originally grew tobacco, spanish found them

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tobacco in london

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7000 tobacco shops around london; people with high status bought and sniffed it (snuff) then it became a commoners drug and was then smoked and chewed

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tobacco in india

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india began growing tobacco, spread to middle east; painting of saffavid ruler smoking hookah

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hookah

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came from the new world, not the middle east (boy in picture wearing a dutch hat)

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indentured servants

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contracted laborers (hired to work)

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young men and women as indentured servants

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could not pay to get to the new world so they became indentured servants to pay their way

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end of 17th century in europe major shift

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from tobacco to sugar; slaves replaced european laborers

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reasons for european shift

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import of expertise and money from the dutch

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the dutch occupied

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part of portugal and cultivated sugar; kicked out and took sugar plantation knowledge to the caribbeans

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sugar compared to tobacco

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sugar was a lot more complex; needed a farm and a factory, needed a lot of slaves to cut the sugar cane,

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process of making sugar

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had to have a windmil to crush the cane, must be done immediately after cut down, juice was extracted, boiled and dried, rum was a side product of this, then mixed with mercury (large investment)

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jamaican sugar plantation

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400 soccer fields in size

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shift from indentured servants to african slaves

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economic reasons (price of land went up), couldn't afford indentured servants anymore.

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jamaica and haiti

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haiti (hispanola), france and britain conquered for more land, became largest producers of sugar (J and H), haiti was one of the wealthiest places

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triangular trade

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textiles, slaves, and other' africa, new world, and europe

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europe

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biggest investment country, used what they made, used honey before sugar to sweeten, sugar became a big part of their diet, made tea extremely popular with sugar

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taxes on sugar

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large part of state revenue

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specialized ships

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300 transported africans across atlantic, brazil recieved most of the slaves

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peak of slavery

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18th century, enlightment in europe,