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Traditional Trade Patterns Linking Europe With Asia and Africa

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Traditional Trade Patterns Linking Europe With Asia and Africa

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Silk Routes across Asia to the Mediterranean basin

Maritime Routes across the Indian Ocean

Trans-Saharan Routes across North Africa

Northern European links with the Black Sea

Western Europe sea and river trade

South China Sea and lands of Southeast Asia

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Exchange of products and ideas

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Expansion of overseas territorial claims and European emigration to North and South America

Demise of Aztec and Incan Empires

Legacy of a rigid class system and dictatorial rule in Latin America

Forced migration of Africans who had been enslaved

Colonies' limitation of the culture and social patterns of their parent countries

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European trading posts along the coast

Trade in slaves, gold, and other resource

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Colonization by small groups of merchants (India, the Indies, China)

Influence of trading companies (Portuguese, Dutch, British)

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Western Hemisphere agricultural products, such as; CORN, POTATOES, and TOBACCO changed European lifestyles

European HORSES and CATTLE changed the lifestyles of American Indians

European diseases, such as; SMALLPOX, killed many American Indians

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Shortage of labor to grow cash crops led to the use of African slaves

Slavery was based on race

European plantation system in the Caribbean and the Americas destroyed indigenous economics and damaged the environment

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European maritime nations competed for overseas markets, colonies, and resources

A new economic system emerged:                                        New money and banking systems were created.            Economic practices, such as mercantilism evolved.

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Europe, Africa, and the Americas

Slaves, sugar, and rum were traded

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Gold & Silver exported to Europe and Asia

Impact on indigenous empires of the Americas

Impact on Spain and international trade

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Creation of foreign enclaves to control trade

Imperial policy of controlling foreign influences and trade

Increase in European demand for Chinese goods (tea and porcelain)

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Characterized by a powerless emperor controlled by a military leader (shogun)

Adopted policy of isolation to limit foreign influences

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1. Caravel Ships/Lateen Sails: new type of ship and sail used by European sailors to make exploration easier
2. Tariff: a tax placed on an import
3. Vasco De Gama: pioneered a water route to India
4. Pedro Alvarez Cabral: claimed Brazil for Portugal
5. Line of Demarcation: imaginary line created by the Pope to prevent the Portuguese from fighting the Spanish by separating the globe into east and west