HIST1055 Study Guide - Final Guide: Market Economy, Portuguese Empire, Habitants
Document Summary
Mining in the americas driven by vision of gold/wealth. Political and economic through which expanding empires, controlled by consolidating-nation states, worked to control land and people to extract benefits of these new places. Trade of these currencies were one of the first products traded globally. Depends on pipeline" to main empires - creates new systems of local economies, pirating, smuggling, etc. Labor allows for increases in good production - sugar, tobacco. Supports exchange of wealth across long distances. Defined by extraordinary growth of white settler populations. Brazil basically became the powerful one in the relationship. Ideas in war changing the way empires function. African and indian choices - seven years war participants. Habitants of senegambia decide to throw their settlement toward the british, even w/o force because they thought it would secure their independence. Spanish are on side of french and together they lose.
