HIAF 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: West African Cuisine, Palm Oil, Cooking Oil
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Hiaf 111 lecture 3 africa and the global economy. In the slave trade, what did africans get in return: west africans, weapons, guns, ammunition, gave powerful states more power and advantage over weaker states, allowed them to expand, food, beads, colorful, glass beads, luxury goods. Furniture, expensive clothing, jewelry: cloth/clothes, mostly from india, most advanced textile industry at the time, with bright colors and many different designs, tie dye, gujarat region produced 1/4 of cotton textiles in the world before the industrial. Revolution: europeans going to india to get textiles to trade for enslaved people in africa, much more complicated relationship than triangle trade, both elite, expensive clothing and clothing for the masses was imported from. India: bedrock of slave trade since the demand was so great, cotton cloth, african demand for specific products structured the way that trade was conducted, things that africans were importing were becoming cheaper as the industrial revolution began.
