HIST 11051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Columbian Exchange, Mortality Rate, Middle Colonies
28 Apr 2019
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Interstate rivalry drove rulers to compete for territory. Chinese and indians had rich markets in the io. Colonies were an opportunity for impoverished nobles and commoners. Network of communication, migration, trade, transfer of plants and animals (including microbes) is called the columbian exchange : the atlantic world connected four worlds, europeans got most of the rewards, shaped by mercantilism. Europeans didn"t just conquer and govern, they created wholly new societies. A system of political and economic policy, evolving with the modern national state and seeking to secure a nation"s political and economic supremacy in its rivalry with other states. 80% of african slaves in americas ended up in brazil and the caribbean. Much more of brazilian and caribbean society was of african descent. Plantation complex based on african slavery spread to south parts of north. Fewer women in the north meant less racial mixing = less tolerance toward mixed blood.
