HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Global Distribution System, Caribbean, Algonquin Language
26 Oct 2016
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Picture of nigerian plate with portrait of portugues slave trader (16th-17th c. In the next weeks : onset of the modern period 3 great revolutions. Drawn to africa because of a labour shortage in the americas . Because disease had wiped out the population in the americas that had been brought over by the europeans. When europeans came by force, conquest and disease and decimated populations in the americas they saw another labor pool by 1600"s western europeans had developed a global distribution system. Starting in the atlantic they were able to set up a global network or transportation - they conquered the sease before the markets. They were transporting european goods (local asian goods), japan produced certain goods and european traders acted as mediators captured the china market in 19th century trading asian goods to asian markets. British specialized in opium trades forced markets on the chinese. They couldn"t colonize key regions japan limited trading partners to china.
