Trade

The period of 1000 – 1500 C.E. was a very tumultuous and transformative time, but as the world was changing, it was also coming closer together. The trans-continental trade, travel, and the exchange of ideas between cultures began to emerge as commonplace. Both the Indian-Ocean and the Sub-Saharan trade routes grew in popularity due to many factors, these factors having both positive and negative effects on Eurasia and the African continents. The interactions that occurred between peoples and…

Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction Upon the discovery of new lands all over the world, the European countries sought after ways to capitalize their newly established colonies and the indigenous people. The earliest Atlantic slave trades are dated to the 15th century, when the first major European world powers the Portuguese and Spanish empires that began with the transportation of slaves from Africa to America for cheaper and easier controllable labors. The slave trade culminated during…

known for trade and commerce itself, but were also used for the spread of culture, religion, technology and political structures. This has led to the influence of cultural diffusion. Throughout the beginning of these time periods or 600 C.E., the Indian Ocean and Silk Roads made long distance trade available due to its large networks and convenient passageways it created for merchants all around. The Silk Roads were mainly used to trade and earn money from goods. It was a land and ocean trade…

The trans-Atlantic trade is a complex series of trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, but can be simplified into triangle trade. Triangle trade has three major routes with three major trade items. The route from America carried molasses to Europe, which was made into rum. Rum was carried from Europe to Africa to buy slave. From Africa slaves were…

The Islamic Slave Trade: Examining Africa’s Ties Since the dawn of the seventh century, the African continent has been a welcoming home for Islam, Modern Age’s fastest growing religion, and its followers.1 Over the subsequent eons, Islam and Africa have become entwined in an intersectional and harmonious relationship, balancing the nuances of faith, scholarship, politics, and economics––all resultative of the institutionalized slavery that metastasized across the continent with the spread of the…

The transatlantic slave trade resulted in the worst oppression of millions of men, women and children who were held in bondage for many centuries. The enslavement of the African people was a cruel, brutal and a horrifying experience for a whole population of people who were forced from their African homeland to American to be demoralized and disrespect. This was the worst act of repression on the lives, integrity, and dignity of a population of African people in our history. The cruel and…

Throughout all the centuries of the slave trade, approximately six to seven million slaves were brought to the New World (Slavery in America). All of these slaves were greatly affected by the slave trade, as well as all of the other individuals involved. The slave trade also greatly altered the civilizations of Europe, Africa and the New World at the time. These places would have been very different without the changes that the slave trade brought to them, and the civilizations would have had…

transatlantic slave trade. While the Europeans encountered great monetary gains, Africans faced immense agony. The greed for wealth demonstrated by Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, and France invoked an increase in one of the most dangerous careers: piracy. Increasing piracy on the Atlantic Ocean not only generated more anguish for the slaves, but forced the European traders into hardship. John Maxwell, captain of a British ship, was no exception. Maxwell’s involvement in the slave trade…

but one of inferiority. One must wonder why. A further walk through Africa’s history reveals how they have suffered over four centuries of abuse through Transatlantic Slave Trade. After the abolition of slavery, they suffered…

The Atlantic Slave Trade had many lasting effects on societies throughout the world. There were many important people that contributed to the rise and fall of slave trade. The Atlantic Slave Trade started in the mid-sixteenth century and ended around the end of the nineteenth century. The Atlantic Slave Trade was begun by the Portuguese in the mid-sixteenth century when Portuguese interests shifted from gold in Africa to the people who lived near the gold, the Africans. Law and society…