...In Europe during the colonial time period, there were many factors that drove the sugar trade, such as the increasing demand for sugar, the colonization of the Caribbean Islands, and the rise in slavery. The demand for sugar grew at a high rate as more of it was being produced. The production itself was taking place in the European-colonized Caribbean islands, which had the perfect climate for growing cane sugar. The rise of slavery meant very cheap labor, thus leading to more sugar being produced in less time. The colonization of the Caribbean Islands in Europe supported cane sugar growth, leading to the trading of the cane sugar. The location and the climate of these islands is further talked about in Documents 1 and 2. The British, Spanish, and French had colonized the Caribbean by 1750 (Doc. 1). Because they had this land, they were able to make a profit off of new crops that grew there. Jamaica and Barbados, two of the islands, had ideal climates for the growth of sugar cane (Doc. 2). It helped cane sugar to grow more quickly, which led to more sugar being traded. The running of the sugar plantations is examined in Documents 6 and 7. There were many materials needed in order to run a plantation, including three-hundred slaves, nine different houses, and two-hundred twenty-five animals (Doc. 6). This explains how the overhead costs on the plantation were expensive, and how the fact that slaves cost nothing positively affected that. The sugar plantations require...
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...around the world were being traded, which lead to an increase in quality of life for the European peoples, a greater demand for export and goods to be traded, and it sent the economies of these European nations soaring. The European nations that were the most successful at the time were Holland, Spain and England. Due to the competitive nature of these nations, and their quest to obtain gold and silver (a common international currency at the time), the leaders of said nations looked for ways to utilize their legislative power to maximize profits...
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...In the mid-seventeenth century, England, France, and Spain were all competing for colonies and trade routes along the world. While each country had been sending explorers out since the last fifteenth century, it wasn’t until the mid-seventeenth that colonization really started. All three of these countries were trying to become not only the wealthiest but the most powerful as well. And no other place promised as much wealth or power as the New World did. Each of these three countries had the same basic motivation for why they wanted to colonize the New World; expansion, power, and most importantly wealth. The differences came about in where these three countries chose to create colonies, and then how those colonies would be populated and governed. These differences were...
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...Men and women have always been different, each having there own strengths and weaknesses, never the less each gender has played a pivotal role in the development of the world we have today. Even though Gender equality has made huges leaps in progress over human history, it is shown in early civilizations the vast differences in the treatment and expectations of men and women. In this essay three primary source documents will be reviewed and analyzed, to clearly pinpoint the key similarities and differences regarding gender relations. Each source document will be relating to a different civilization at a different time. It is important to note that even in similar historical time frames gender roles ranged greatly from one civilization or empire...
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...Looking back at my Prelim answer, I was wrong with my educated (?) guess of Spain as the center of the world. Though Spain, with their expeditions and through their conquering nature, certainly contributed to the success of the real hub of the world in 1500, they were not the front-runners, China was. I honestly had not thought about any country in Asia when giving my initial answer (perhaps because of the early Euro-centered education I received that we all discussed?). China was the center of the world in 1500 for many reasons: their population tripled, urbanization spiked, and productive capacity boomed. It really boiled down to the fact that all money (mainly silver) was flowing into China while manufactured goods were flowing out. At the...
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...China and Japan Respond to the West Source Analysis Questions Directions: Using the China and Japan Response to Westernization Source Packet, answer the following questions about each of the documents. The first 5 documents are due on Monday 2/8. The second set are due on Friday 2/12. Document 1: Key Information: Opium Wars British East India Company sold Opium China began to loose power Opium is a drug: causes numbness, yellow skin, addiction. Theatrical Poster (advertise): Man lying on cushion and smoking opium. Messy at Opium Joint. Exaggeration of what is really happening. Point of View: Western - American Bias? Who?: Yes. Against Chinese. All Chinese people are high on opium. This poster is about a big problem among some Chinese immigrants in the U.S. in the late 1800s. What is the problem and how does the illustration depict it? The problem that the illustration is trying to convey is that there is and opium problem in the U.S. as well as in China. The Chinese man in the picture is displayed on a cushion using opium. The illustration is attempting to show that Chinese people can be lazy, addicted, unmotivated, weak, east to take over, etc.. Overall, this poster is showing the problem with opium and its effect on the people of China. Document 2: Key Information: Peasant uprisings “Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace” “Taiping Rebellion” 20 million died Point of View West Bias? Who? Yes, against the Chinese. With what phrases in particular does this document best express...
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...lord fiefs. The relationship between lords and Vassals are similar to kings and lords. 5. The church was a very unifying influence because the people wanted to follow the sacraments so they could get into eternal life once they die. The Height of Medieval Civilization Vocab Charters- a written document that guaranteed rights Guilds- a group for merchants or artisans that governed the town Vernacular- everyday language for people Scholasticism-people applying the idea of logic and reasoning being used to support the christian faith Crusade- a military expedition against the enemies of the church Section II review 1. Dante, a poet in Florence wrote a Italian vernacular. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy, which he combined poetry, theology and history. Chaucer, an english poet used vernacular in The Canterbury Tales. Thomas Aquinas, a scholastic used reasoning and logic that could be used to support the Christian faith. 2. Charters- a written document that guaranteed rights Guilds- a group for merchants or artisans that governed the town Vernacular- everyday language for people Scholasticism-people applying the idea of logic and reasoning being used to support the christian faith Crusade- a military expedition against the enemies of the church 3. One of the economical changes that happened during the late middle ages was the guides. The guides were merchants or artisans who governed the town. The became an economic activity because they governed prices, wages and more. Another change...
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...During the mid 16th century to the 18th century, social and economical effects, in regions such as Europe, where trade with the world increased, and Asia, where the people started using silver for payment instead of other goods, became present due to the rise of production and global trade of silver. In the documents by people from the Ming, which are the documents by Ye Chunji [doc 1], Wang Xijue [doc 3], and He Qiacyuan [doc 7] show the changes in the economy of China. In the documents by the people of Spain, which include Tomas de Mercado [doc 2] and Antonio Vásquez de Espinoza [ doc 6] show the differences in the pricings and accepted currencies occurring. In the documents by the British, which are by Ralph Fitch [doc 4], and Charles Avenant [doc 8], show the major changes in world trade....
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...Through out world history we have progressed from hunter and gatherers, small bands of families, to small empires, into a large interconnected world. We have made the world smaller and smaller as we have progressed as a whole. As a great turning point in our history was between 600-1500 C.E. when the world became a much more integrated. This happened though population growth, expansion of territories, and increased trade between civilizations. In this paper I will show how that these three things brought Europe, Asia, and Africa closer together. With the continent of Asia I'm going to focus on the People of the Steppes, the Mongols. It starts with the unifier of the mongols Temujin, he united the different mongol clans becoming Chinggis...
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...which being the negative effects of silver on generally low class people. Document 2 was written by a Spanish scholar to inform merchants of high silver prices in Asia that cause Spain to lose silver to China, resulting in trade imbalance. The scholar, Tomas de Mercado, spotlights the inflation in Spain but is disconcerned with high prices in Asia. In document 5, a Chinese writer’s article to the general public describes the changing economy. After switching from a barter system to a system that focuses on silver coin, the lower classes’ access to goods seems to be more limited. Document 6 focuses on a Spanish priest, de Espinoso, who wishes to inform the Spanish interested in the Caribbean of negative consequences in the colonies of the New World. As a priest, he’s concerned with moral issues...
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...Before Muhammad the arabian peninsula had farmers and pastoral nomads. They lived in small population, but later learned more about other countries like Africa,India, and Persians to trade. Arabs later move to live in the center of trade routes, by the third century b.c.e.,they took control over the trade caverns to control the supplies. While the religion of Islam was spreading, Muhammad’s purpose was to address people about Allah/god and tell people about his message. The Jews and Christians did not believe in Muhammad’s words The silimilatilty between India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain is that most of their population converted to islam, but the difference is the interaction with islam. Around the 1000 the turkish invaded India and...
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...Connor Darnell 10/8/2014 History Exam 1 Question 2 It is believed that the Greeks migrated toward Greece beginning in the late third millennium BCE. They migrated because of the climate and because it had good soil for agriculture, as well as having live stock and generally warm weather. They also started an early form of direct democracy. This new form of democracy was known as a direct democracy which basically meant that the people have a direct say in their government unlike the democracy we have today in america, which sends our votes to the electoral college to be counted and then based on those votes the decision is finally decided by the electoral college. Greece however created a system where everyone was heard, there was no middle...
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...Between the time periods of 1700 to 1900, reasons for migrations differentiated from region to region, but also some changed within their own region throughout that time period. Such as the migration of the European people to the Americas, due to imperialism, starvation, and industrialization. Also, the migration of the African people to the Americas, due to the beginning and end of slave trade. However, when the Europeans migrated over to Africa and Asia, they colonized and conquered territories. During the 18th century, migration of the European people into the Americas was mostly based around imperialism. European countries felt the need to expand and colonize, such as Great Britain, which had many colonies along the east coast of North America. Additionally, Spain colonized the Caribbean and also areas in South America. However, when the Africans came over to the Americas, they did not come over willingly. African men were taken against their will to be sold in the Atlantic Slave Trade to work in colonies. These slaves would work in terrible conditions on sugar and cotton plantations. On the other hand, the Europeans that traveled to Africa were not interested in capturing more slaves, but were more interested in their raw materials. Like the other European countries in the Americas, the Dutch secured territories around Batavia and worked to secure a monopoly over spices in Asia. However, once the 1800’s began, reasons for travel began to change. Around 1845, there was...
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...1)The Babylonians lack of a real government resulted in them having more immediate punishments such as death, the loss of a tooth, or having a hand cut off. The Babylonians did not have trials, and the problems were dealt between two people. The state used volunteers for public works as they had the people take care of their own dykes and canals, laws made it such that you were responsible for your dyke and if you did not take good care of it, then you would face punishment. As the government was not able to afford a professional court system for all crimes they had to make it such that the people were able to deal with it most crimes themselves. 2)In Babylonian law, women were protected as they had the right to leave their marriage. In the Jewish religion women were not able to be sold off after marriage. It came off as the women only had something to do with the law through marriage and the men they were associated with. It can easily be seen that both societies were patriarchal because in Babylonian law if a women if accused of sleeping with another man, but she has not slept with him, she must throw herself into the river for her husband's sake, this shows that women were expected to do things for the betterment of their husband. This can also be seen in Jewish law as there is a law saying that if a man says he has not been sleeping laying with that women, and the women cannot prove that he has, the word of the man is taking and she would have been pelted with rocks. Both...
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...and so Frederick would have resisted his enslavement. He was willing to risk getting punished by his master for not getting him his money. Enslaved people resist their enslavement by running away. This is historically significant because they were willing to risk their lives to resist their enslavement. According to the Daily Picayune, “I purchased him on the 28th October last, from Bernard Kendig, and he ran away on the 25th November following.” This shows how slaves ran away quickly from their plantations; which shows how much they hated their enslavement to the point that they were willing to risk their lives in order to get away from their enslavement. This is outside evidence that can be found in Runaway slaves, written by NY History, “Running away carried heavy risks. If runaways were caught, they would be physically punished, usually by whipping, and might be made to wear chains or handcuffs to prevent them from running again.”. This shows us how the slaves would get punished if caught, by running away, that runs the risk that if they were caught they would be forced to go back to their plantations in even harsher and more difficult conditions. They knew this and were willing to risk cruel and severe punishment for the chance of freedom from their enslavement. In conclusion, slaves had resisted their enslavement by using various ways such as fighting back, refusing to work, and by running away, which is historically significant because it affected millions and is...
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