HIS203H5 Lecture : Trade in the Atlantic World -Feb 14, 2012
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Trade: y producing, buying and consuming of goods. Why did the portugese expand towards africa? (southward) y spice trade producers were in south east asia y cinnamon, cardamom, pepper (drove the spice trade) y. Later on become the middle men ,no interest of colonization just interested in becoming merchants y the consumers the portugese were concerned with was western europe was well out of the distance from asia. Patterns of consumption? y they didn t have any, the spices were intensly expensive, were used to mask the taste of bad food y uniquely associated with wealthy households ( spices) association with the goodlife, they were exotic commodities y. It was to demonstrate that they had the means to purchase the spices. Merchants y muslims were the first to control then the portugese. Transatlantic slave trade y portugese were the middle men for already existing rade y old trade from south africa y producers were african pop.
