HIST 1330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Biological Warfare, World View, Smallpox
Document Summary
The commercial revolution is the process through which capitalism came into existence and the modern world economy began to take shape. The modern world economy is defined by a global integrated capitalist economy. We define capitalism primarily as a social and economic system in which the primary activity of human beings is production for the market. The atlantic system was created in the early modern period (1500-1800) it is basically defined as a network of movement and exchange that occurs around the atlantic ocean. Exchange in goods (silver, gold, tomatoes, potatoes, maze, tobacco, horses) the exchange goes both ways. There was also an exchange of peoples (european settlers to the americas, african slaves to the. All the initial projects to settle in the americas were devised to make a quick profit. After time they developed into full blown settler colonial projects for the portuguese, spanish, british, There was a devastating consequence for the indigenous population the population fell dramatically.
