The Atlantic World is the exchange of goods between Europe, Africa, and America through the Atlantic Ocean. Before airplanes, settlers would sail through boat and would take months if not years to their destinations. With months of sailing and no sanitation in a jam-packed boat brought diseases, for example, the Europeans brought small pox causing death rates up to ninety percent to the Native Americans. Along with deceases, Europeans brought Africans in exchanged for guns and textiles to the Americas for labor but without paying them a wage, also own as the Atlantic slave trade. The Atlantic World also cause the population of Africans to exceed the population of European settlers due to the high demand of labor.
