Empires and Commerce

1450-1750

CHANGE in Global Commerce

SILVER!• Silver was THE ITEM that really began

GLOBAL TRADE• Chinese demand for silver and new silver

mines in Spanish America & Japan led to global trade movement.

CHANGE in Global Commerce

TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE began• Massive movement of people through the

slave trade from coasts of West Africa to the Americas led by Europeans.

• Slave trade to fill demand for labor in plantation agriculture in the Caribbean, Brazil, and N America.

• Part of the Atlantic trade triangle

“New” trade connections

FUR TRADE• Luxury furs exported from Russia and North

America .• Variety of animal furs and varieties of

peoples involved in the trade.

New trading empires

EUROPEAN TRADING POST EMPIRES• European nation-states controlled ports and

territories in the Americas, Africa, South & Southeast Asia

• Increasingly Europeans carried the trade goods of maritime trade…even the routes that had existed before European arrival

Spanish Empire 1600s

Portuguese Empire 1600s

Dutch East India Company

JAPAN

• After a period of contact with Europeans, Japanese isolate themselves from outsiders while profiting from the silver trade and keeping “watch” on outsiders.

Make a map that has the main trade routes +

Oceans- Atlantic, Indian, & PacificSeas- Mediterranean, Caribbean, & BlackEmpires- Label each separately…–Qing (Strayer p644)–Mughal (645)–Ottoman (647) –Russian (682)–Spanish, French, Dutch, English, Portuguese

territories. (682)