Obas of Benin

Mechelle Chang AP World Period 3 January 8,2014 Chapter 15 IDs Chapter Thesis During the early modern era, the global economy was marked by slave trade across the Atlantic, plantations in the Americas, silver commerce between the new and old worlds, and fur trade in Europe and Asia. African diaspora- The transatlantic spread of African peoples through the Atlantic slave trade during the post-Columbian era. The spread of African people into new societies (the Americas) sparked issues of race…