World History II

The European demand for slaves was clearly the chief cause of the tragic commerce, and from the point of sale on the African coast to the massive use of slave labor on American Plantations, the entire enterprise was in European hands. West Africans convinced Europeans that such efforts were unwise and unnecessary, for African societies were quite capable of defending themselves against Europeans intrusion, and many were willing to sell their slaves peacefully. African Sellers were looking for both European and Indian Textiles, cowrie shells, European metal goods, firearms, and gunpowder tobacco and alcohol. For more than four centuries of the slave trade, millions of Africans underwent such experiences, but their numbers change over time. During the sixteenth, slave exports from Africa. Ten Percent of the Enslaved Africans experienced a major rebellion by desperate captives, and resistance continued in America. Economically, the slave trade had a pretty good chance for Africa d...

The slave trade was one of the components of those international networks of exchange that shaped human interactions during the centuries between 1450 and 1750. Southeast Asians, Chinese, Indians, Armenians, Arabs, Africans, and Native Americans likewise played major roles in the making of the world economy during the early modern era. During the fifteenth century, Europe's population was growing again, and its national monarchies in Spain, Portugal, England, and France- were learning how to tax their subjects more effectively and to build a substantial military force. For many centuries, Eastern goods had trickled into the Mediterranean through the Middle East from the Indian Ocean. The arena of Indian Ocean commerce into which Vasco de Gama and his Portuguese successors sailed across the world. Most of them were Muslims, though hailing from many separate communities: Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and Chinese likewise had a role in the commercial network The militar...

In America, the Aztec and Inca empires were on top before there enemies the Spanish, Portuguese, British, French, and Dutch constructed all across the Western Hemisphere. European Empires were not the only nation that controlled a nation. Across the World, the Russians constructed the most dominant empire during the modern era. Western Europe was so powerful because of how they conquered territories all across the world.  The Europeans had encountered across the Atlantic Ocean but what they have done given a new rise to a new world in the Americas. Women and Men often experienced colonial intrusion in quite distinct ways. By violence, disease, and labor. Russian Attention was drawn first to the grasslands south and east of the Russian heartland, an area long inhabited by various nomadic pastoral peoples, who were organized into feuding with other tribes and clans. The economic foundation for this emerging colonial society lay in commercial agriculture, much of it on large r...

There are three centuries that are labeled as the "early modern era." The beginnings of genuine globalization, elements of distinctly modern societies, and a growing European presence in world affairs. The Atlantic slave trade linked Africa permanently to the Western Hemisphere, while the global silver trade allowed Europeans to use New World Precious metals to buy their way into ancient Asian trade routes. The Scientific revolution transformed at least for a few people, their view of the world, changed their approach to knowledge and their understanding of religious ideology. The first countries experienced the beginnings of the modern population were Japan, India, and Europe. Europeans ruled over Americans and controlled the world's sea routes, there political and military power in mainland Asia and Africa was very limited.