usage spread. Seeking to trade opium for tea‚ the East India Company induced Indian peasants to raise opium‚ which could then be shipped to China. Enormous quantities of opium made their way to China‚ swelled by the number of merchants involved. By the 1820s‚ the value of opium coming into China exceeded the value of goods exported out. Thus‚ the Chinese had to pay silver in addition to their goods to get opium. Silver shortages began to hurt peasants. To stop the trade‚ the Qing emperor sent a special
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The Sugar trade. Oh the wonderful sweetness of money and sugar. What drove this so called sugar trade‚ you ask? Consumer demand‚ return on investment‚ and slavery were all very important aspects to the making of the historic events in which were the sugar trade. Consumer demand is the product of the addicting compounds which make up sugar‚ adding it to about everything sugar gradually became a very important aspect in the 1500’s normal lifestyle. Return on investment is when you put money into
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The Silk Road trade and the Trans-Saharan trade have effected the civilizations around them with power and the economy by their highly demanded good and the spread of religion‚ however some of the routes led to the spread of disease. The Silk Roads connected the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire‚ building a massive road system traveling from China all the way to Gaul and Spain. The Trans-Saharan trade routes traveled all down the Red Sea to Zimbabwe. The trade routes symbolized the complex areas around
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People in power often dictate recordings of history‚ but the Atlantic slave trade found an exception to this pattern. Documents from both enslavers and enslaved of this time regarding management of captives provide an insight on the treatment of slaves in the middle passage. Data from both parties clearly illustrates slave trading as a massive industry‚ and one where enslavers valued efficiency over the well-being of captives to garner the maximum possible profit. Conditions illustrated in these
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You might ask‚ “What drove the sugar trade?”. Let me tell you by starting off saying; consumers demanded sugar. Consumers demanded sugar because the producers became wealthy off of sugar‚ sugar was sweet so people wanted it and was very efficient due to the labor of slaves. To start off‚ sugar was an easy way to become wealthy for producers. As said in Document 7A and 7B‚ after the first production of sugar from the West Indies‚ sugar easily grabbed the attention of many Englishmen. The Englishmen
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1/23/12 Silver Trade DBQ The global trade of silver had a devastating affect on the Chinese economy because China did not have the supply of silver that was needed to support their economy so they became dependent on the trade that the Europeans brought (1‚3‚7‚8). In Europeans states like Spain and Portugal we see their economies benefiting from the increase of the global silver trade because they controlled silver mines in the Americas and India (2‚4‚6). In china the increase of silver trade brought
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16th century. During the transition was the exchange of trade‚ diseases‚ technology and more which was called the Columbian Exchange. The Natives were ultimately the primary workers when the Europeans invaded their homeland‚ but because of diseases brought by the Europeans most of the Natives died. Due to the vast decrease of the Natives the Europeans were forced to seek labor from elsewhere‚ which was Africa. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was a naval voyage that took place across the Atlantic Ocean
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Essay on: How does the absence of humanitarian concerns influence the treatment of slaves during the slave trade? By: Isabela Greene The Slave Trade is when the Europeans and Americans bought‚ sold‚ and transported African slaves. The absence of humanitarian concerns the influence in the treatment of slaves during the slave trade by slaves were treated like an object or animal not a person‚ the conditions of where they were kept‚ and how other countries men didn’t have to do the work so the made
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Diagram of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade. (From an Abstract of Evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in 1790 and 1791). The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World‚ as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods‚ which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans‚ who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves;
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The Silver trade boomed from 15701750‚making silver one of the most traded items of the time period. The flow of such h h silver during the mid16t early 18t had social and economic effects to the regions connected by the trade ‚ such as‚ increasing class distinctions in China and Europe as well as hurt the Spanish and Chinese economy. The Silver trade puts a countries such as China in situations whereas the Silver trade helps or hurt the civilization. The Silver Trade became a major influence on the society of
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