HIST 1707 Lecture Notes - 4000 Miles, Spice Trade, Olaudah Equiano
7 Jul 2014
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Slave comes from slavic, who were large sources of slaves in the 9th century. Aztecs, samarians, babylonians, greeks, romans (used people from. Britain/france/europe), africans (internal slavery via raiding neighbours) kept slaves. There was an export slave trade before trans-atlantic slave trade to the arabian. Slaves were common form of tribute in ancient egypt (jews, europeans, ethiopians) Trans-atlantic slave trade from west africa to build the backbone of the new world. Took place in a circuit and tied together europe, Began in late 1400s, and continued until the 19th century. So lucrative b/c each region produced a product not developed in another region. Europeans made textiles, cloth, and manufactured goods (weapons, guns, gun powder, Also brought rum , which was produced in new world, brought to europe and sold to africa). From new world, there was sugar, molasses, rum, cotton, and other products, all sold in. After christopher columbus bumped into espa ola, europeans started travelling to the new world.
