Socio Economic Changes From 1492 To 1750

Over the course of a couple hundred years, many things can change, and surprisingly, some will stay constant. Take East Asia for example, between 1200 CE and 1400 CE the region was under the rule of three different dynasties (Song, Yuan, and Ming). Between 1492 and 1750, culture was spread through the Atlantic World (Western Europe, Western Africa, and the Eastern Americas) through trade and socialization. These interactions caused socio economic transformation due to the introduction of new crops, weapons, and even slavery, which was, at the time, the most prominent form of labor; however there were several continuities.
The socio economic changes were fueled by everything from crops to trinkets. The introduction of cash crops, like tobacco and sugarcane, gave the economy a huge boost (i.e. the term “cash crop”). The Columbian exchange and the triangular trade all contributed to this. They exported
Over the centuries, slave labor was the ever-present, favorite form of labor. Of course, those who were enslaved did not favor it, but the slave owners prefered it because they did not have to pay for the labor. The men who ran the encomiendas in South America were particularly in favor of it because the process that was required to harvest sugarcane was so strenuous that the workers often died within only a couple years of starting their work. The means by which the slaves were acquired and the areas they were taken from changed rapidly over the years, but slavery was always present and it always served as a major factor in the economy of the atlantic world. Throughout this time period, another constant occurrence was exploration and colonization by the europeans. England, Spain, and France were the major culprits. They often sent conquistadors and explorers to find and claim new land. By 1750, they had colonized or claimed most of the new Atlantic world (the Americas and surrounding