India And China Chapter Summaries

In general, Reich’s book gives us an insight of the early trading amongst the countries and how they depended on each other countries imports for personal or their people use. Therefore, the ideas of finding new trading partners were always encouraging and the during the Renaissance or rebirth the people started becoming creative in finding a new trade route to reach India and China and a new world than their forbears of the Middle Ages (Reich, 2011, p. 3). Therefore, missionaries and traders started sailing west to reach India and China. The famous article written about the wealth and grandeur of India and China was written by Marco Polo, who traveled throughout the Orient between 1274 and 1295 (Reich, 2011, p. 3). In his book, he mentioned all of the places in the east he has visited such as Persia, Japan, Zanzibar and Madagascar and it brought excitement and increased expeditions. In short, Portugal, Spain, France and England became the power houses in Europe, but all of them had the common problem of an unfavorable balance of trade. For the most part, these countries were spending more on the goods they imported than the goods they exported, in which gold and silver were being drained from their wealth (Reich, 2011, p. 5). In short, …show more content…
For the most part, the slaves in the Chesapeake area worked on tobacco plantations and farm lands. In fact, tobacco was labor – intensive so, the African slaves were used because the way the settler viewed them. In fact, most blacks lived in the Chesapeake regions, where they made up more than 50 to 60 percent of the overall population (Introduction to Colonial African American Life, “n.d.”). Furthermore, the worked on the plantation was hard and hot, but there were some advantages of working on a plantation because the slaves lived in family units and had Sundays off (Introduction to Colonial African American Life,