Trade routes

The transatlantic slave trade is often regarded as the first system of globalization. It is very unique within the universal history of slavery. Its duration lasted approximately for four centuries. Black African men, women, and children were the main people victimized during this. The intellectual legitimization attempted on its behalf was the development of an anti-black ideology and its legal organization. It involved several regions and continents such as Africa, America, the Caribbean,…

How the trans-Atlantic slave trade transformed Africa & Africans The trans-Atlantic slave trade decimated the young working population of Africa, warped long-held cultural and religious beliefs and helped militarize many nations’ armies at the expense of their own countrymen; all of these factors together ultimately created a second wave of slave trade in response to its cessation on the trans-Atlantic route. Although there is no way to calculate the exact number of Africans who were placed…

Africa is a continent with a diverse geography and human population. The people who lived in the sub Sahara Africa, which is located on the south, trade route fostered the development of a Kingdom centered on a gold trade. Agriculture moved south of the Nile Valley and across regions just south of the Sahara Dessert to West Africa which then moved southward. The Ancient Egyptians mainly controlled the south territory and Nile River, ships were not allowed to travelled freely. The Egyptians…

The Sub-Saharan long distance commodity and slave trade as well as the syncretic interweaving of Islamic culture and traditional African culture accounts for Africa’s major influence as a superpower. Traders from all over the world were drawn to Africa’s riches in gold, ivory, and human beings. The fact that Africa was rich in resources posed influence in itself. Considering that a great number of the visiting traders were Muslims and they begin to intermarry and form relationships –…

basis. People look at a family whether they are poor or rich, and you can always see that family connection. The world thrives off of day to day connections. Connections that either drive the local business to even the large corporate company who trades and connects with the rest of the world. New Netherland was a town on the vanguard for people using connections to build companies as well as the small seedy underbelly of economic growth in our country. Women were enlarge an important…

the world grew rapidly. The increasing of trade, the desire to learn more about the Earth, new inventions, and a more rapid flow of information all combined to make the Great Age of Discovery. But along with all the great things that was traded between the New and Old Worlds there had to be people to do the hard labor in the midst of this period, this is what…

The key motivation for establishing the colonies in New World was opportunities of trade; the building of wealth and spreading Christianity. The colonist settled in Jamestown really by chance. They set off to the New World with expectations of bringing Christian religion to the Indians, possessing new land for England, and finding riches; gold, silver, iron, wood that would be lucrative for trade. After a long, rough voyage at sea, they landed in the Chesapeake Bay area, were they followed the…

Economical West Africa and North Africa is where the trans-Saharan trade took place. Trans-Saharan trade was very important. The Kingdom of Mali became unified because of the Trans-Saharan trade. Once a city state, the Kingdom of Mali grew into a prosperous trading city as trade became huge (Voyages in World History, Volume 1, 3rd edition, by Valerie Hansen and Kenneth Curtis, page 312). Social and political The Mali Empire was West Africa’s Ancient Empire. Western African Cities were a…

African Slave Trade In The Atlantic World African slaves in the Atlantic world were treated a lot different than any other slaves in the world. African slaves were experienced in farming and they knew how to use the tools and what to do without having to be taught. They were all hard working and never stopped when they got tired, they just pushed through the pain and got back to working harder. African slaves could be taught plantation work and they were very cheap labor. African slave owners…

Introduction Australian manufacturing has undergone massive transformations since the 1960s when it dominated the Australian economy forming 28% of the gross domestic product (GDP), or the total value of goods and services produced by a country over a period of time, until present where it only forms 8% of Australia’s GDP (as of 2010-11) . This decline can be seen as the result of structural changes mainly economic liberalisation, or the lessening of government intervention in the economy, since…