Changes And Continuities

While the Atlantic world began coming into new contacts with other places such as Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to 1750, economic, social, and global transformations began occurring. As Europeans came to economically dominate Atlantic trade, their influence over social customs expanded. As Europeans also benefited from the expansion of economic activities into the Americas, trade and conquest also brought about social changes. These changes were the cause of increasing economic dominance from the Europeans to the Atlantic world. Economic changes were among the most differences due to new contacts within the new Atlantic world. Particularly, one of the included is mercantilism. Europeans began to grow wealthy at the expense of colonies, Native Americans, and Africans. Along with this, the Columbian Exchange, on the Atlantic, also advanced the spread of plants, animals, and ideas between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
The social classes went as follows: Peninsulares, creoles, mestizos/ mulattoes, Native Americans, and Africans. Slave trade also led to decreased population in Africa, weakened remaining African civilizations, and hurt the rise of new civilizations. The spread of disease also had its impact by killing large portions of the Native American populations. Finally, Christianity blended with the beliefs of Native Americans and Africans. Globally, there were things going on that allowed these transformations in the way of life, and globally, transformations of their own were taking place because of the Atlantic world. Global economy took a change because of the economic changes of the middle passage. Advanced weapons of Europeans lead to the colonization. Expansion of Catholicism in the Americas was allowed because of the rise of the Ottoman Empire. And lastly, was a rise in importance of the new Atlantic