the Columbian exchange Flashcards
Trading post Empire
Portugal was an example
- This allowed them to control the Indian ocean trade network
how did African states grow?
By selling slaves
Japan…what’s going on there??
- Japan closed off itself to European interest
- Dutch and Portugal showed up and started spreading religion (Christianity)
- They didn’t like this and cut themselves off from trade with them
- making them isolated
British East India company
- They had great power
- They were a joint stock company,
- They used the conflict between Hindus and Muslims to worm their way into trade
SPAIN
- They took over Aztec and Inca’s empires
- Rivalry with Portugal on who will gain control of the Americas (they won)
The Treaty of Tordesillas
- A treaty between Portugal and Spain
- Spain got control of the Americas and Portugal got control of Africa
How were Europeans able to get into the Indian ocean trade
They (Portugal) showed up with cannons and guns
Labor in the Americas
There was forced labor
Spain labor:The hacienda system
- Given land to high class people or conquestidors who could get to the Americas
- They employed lower class workers to work on land for low cost
- They could pay off their debt and leave
SPAIN LABOR: Encomienda system
System of labor:
- The beneficiary was given control of a certain amount of natives
- The natives would then get access to religion/protection
- In return they would work.
Mita System
- Compelled certain people to work on certain projects for a certain amount of time, (Spain got Incas to send people to work to mine silver)
Chattel slavery
- People owned other people as property,
- needed Africans because Native workers were dying and escaping
Indentured servitude (British)
- People(British) could work for a certain number of years and then go free
- (Didn’t work because then they would actually go free)
Change in African culture
- One man would then take multiple wife after African men were being taken (polyginy)
- They created new culture in the Americas
Changes in Africa
- Less strong people to work on fields, less military, left them open to invasions
Mercantilism
Main economical system: States wealth was measured in gold and silver
- Their main goal was to have more exports than imports(cash crops)
- Colonies exist to serve mother country (material wise)
What was formed?
Joint stock company
- Exploration was financed by joint investors (they would then share profits and losses) (example, British Dutch co. who had a shit ton of power), Portugese and Spain were not doing this(money came from king)
Commercial revolution
goods were being traded soley for gold and silver
-for example, china traded silk for silver
Triangular trade
anybody who had land in the Americas were part of this system of the Atlantic.
- Europe -> Africa -traded manufactured goods like guns,gunpowder,textiles,rum
Africa->Americas - slaves
Americas -> Europe- resources like gold,silver,sugar,coffee,tobacco
what rivalries developed?
Between Europe and Muslims to control the Indian ocean trade
Culture changed how?
- African states were weakened
- new foods given to africa made pop go up
- erased culture(burned books, language changed)
- new culture developed, syncretism, their belifs blended together, christaniry mized with african beliefs
native tongues were lost over time. New languages developed as a blend of different dialects, such as
Creole.
