Summary: The Atlantic Slave Trade

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2. The Atlantic Slave Trade
- enslaved about 10 to 15 million Africans in South America, the Caribbean and North America.
- The Atlantic slave trade started in the 16th century and lasted until the mid-19th century.
- The slave trades, both of them, was an enormous population, labor and brain drain on Africa.
- young and those best able to work.
- This removes men and women who would reproduce and add their children to Africa's population.
- As a result, many areas of Africa are today underpopulated.
- Instead of that labor and effort going to the benefit of their native communities, their labor and effort went, instead, to benefit the societies that enslaved them.
- Finally,
the intellect, talents and abilities of the enslaved were permanently taken from Africa and transported to the Americas

3. The Columbian Exchange
- one of the most significant results of the Age of Exploration and the First Global Age.
- Food products, livestock and diseases are but three elements of the Columbian Exchange.
- Columbus "discovered America" and Western Europe discovered the various economic opportunities available in the New World, agricultural exchanges between the two regions led to exchanges of other items.
- Within decades of Columbus' voyages, the trans Atlantic slave trade had begun and hundreds of thousands of native Americans died of diseases brought to America by Europeans and Africans.

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The event which most historians of science call the scientific revolution can be dated roughly as having begun in 1543, the year in which Nicolaus Copernicus published his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) and Andreas Vesalius published his De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human body), although several 'failed revolutions' had previously occurred[1] [2]. As with many historical demarcations, historians of science disagree about its boundaries, some seeing elements contributing to the revolution as early as the 14th century and finding its last stages in chemistry and biology in the 18th and 19th centuries.[3] There is general agreement, however, that the intervening period saw a fundamental transformation in scientific ideas in physics, astronomy and biology, in institutions supporting scientific investigation, and in the more widely held picture of the
universe.

5. Because they were essentially two entirely different types of revolution. In fact, you could go so far as to say the American Revolution wasn't a revolution in the usual sense, just a secession or a geography-based civil war.

The main goal of the American Revolution was for the colonial governments to break away from the rule of Great Britain.
After the war, the social order and forms of government were mostly intact, and the main challenge facing the former colonies was how to unite from 13 little nations into one big nation. Connecticut, which elected its colonial governors, even had the same person as governor before, during, and after the war.

In contrast, the French Revolution was a total upheaval of society that overthrew the system of government, the upper classes, and the grip of the Catholic church, and instituted a radically new society based on Enlightenment ideas. The result of this was civil war and bloody conflict between the revolutionaries and those who rejected the new ideology.

6. -London was largest city in Europe 
-Center of high culture which led to consumers' desire for manufactured goods 
-England was single largest free-trade area in Europe 
-All citizens were equally taxed 
-Society was mobile; those who had or could make money could rise socially
England (being the dominat world super power at the time) had both the economic and intellectual resources to put into research and development. Being an economic beacon they tended to attrach the smarted and most motivated individuals to
England.
They also could beg, borrow or steal a lot of ideas and/or talent from many locations around the globe and improve or ulitise what they had learnt from many other peoples.
Economic pressures in the textile business (in which England was *the* world leader) started the drive toward mechanised factories. The increased economic returns drove the machine age forward.

Britain was the motor of the Industrial Revolution for several interlinked reasons; it was politically stable - so speculators were prepared to invest their money. It was economically stable - so there was spare money with which to invest. The Agrarian Revolution of about 1700 onwards had increased farm efficiency - leading to more spare money, it also meant a great number of farm workers being made unemployed - freeing them up for work in the new factories. It had an abundance of natural resources - coal, iron and other minerals are found near the surface in many locations across the country - so mining them was cheap and relatively easy. It rains a lot - vital for the water powered mills in the early stages of the Revolution. And there was a climate of innovation and invention which engendered further innovation and invention.
Belgium was the first continental country to industrialise - in the coal and iron rich south.
Plus it had ready made markets in her colonies, London was the World's largest city at the time - and growing rapidly and Britain's navy was the World's largest, providing protection for her enormous merchant fleet.

7. Comparating the Inca and Aztec empires.
Both the Inca’s and the Aztec’s had similarities linking to their military and religion, and differences concerning their religion again, and their political structure.

The Inca and Aztec people had similarities between them with their military tactics and land expansions, and their religion. For example, the sun was a very important part of both of their religions. For the Inca, the sun was their most important god in their religion. For the Aztecs, the sun was one of two of their most important gods. The sun was very important in both empires, was because the sun is related to many things in nature. The sun is needed for agriculture because it makes plants grow, which in turn lets animals live by feeding off of plants, and the humans live by using the plants for medicine, and other things. Another example of how the two empires were similar is their military tactics and expansions.