HIST1077 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Planation Surface, Cash Crop, Public–Private Partnership
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Review 1600-1650: gold/silver system in crisis, power transition from souther europe to northern europe, emergence of new commodities, meaning of sugar. A. sugar production does not rise naturally to meet demand. A. 1. high demand and supply is artificially increase: enslaved laborers produced through war, sugar production grows with government support (public private partnerships) and re- lentless physical force. Enslaved laborers produced by war: coming from west and central africa. A. 1. large urbanized and small states throughout west and central africa. A. 2. there is not considered a surplus of people in west or central africa (unlike european surplus) A. 2. a) the control of the limited amount of people became a control of the power in the region. Two ways to gain power over people (a. 1. a. 1) to exchange goods (a. 1. a. 1. a) i. e. gift giving (a. 1. a. 1. b) become the leader through control of goods (a. 1. a. 1. c) tributary relationships (a. 1. a. 2) A. 3. initial contact with the europeans did not affect the power structures of africa at first.
