January 17 Early modern commerce in products, strayer chapter 14 ( first half)
"I have come full circle back to my destiny: from Africa to America and back to Africa. I could hear the cries and wails of my ancestors. I weep with them and for them." This is what an African American woman from Atlanta wrote in 2002 in the guest book of the cape coast castle, one of the many ports of embarkation for slaves located along the coast of Ghana in west Africa. there she no doubt saw the whips and leg irons used to discipline the captured africans as well as the windowless dungeons in which hundreds were crammed while waiting for the ships that would carry them across the Atlantic to the americas.
Almost certainly she also caught sight of the infamous " Gate of no return", through which the captives departed to their new life as slaves. The slave trade, however, was only one component of those international networks of exchange that shaped interactions during the centuries between 1450 and 1750. Europeans now smashed their way into the ancietn spice trade of the Indian can, developing new relationships with asian societies as a result. Silver obtained from mines in Spanish America, enriched Western Europe, even as much of it made its way to china, where it allowed europeans to participate more fully in the rich commerce of east Asia. Furs from North America and Siberia found a ready market in Europe and china, while the hunting and trapping of those fur- bearing animals transformed both natural environments and huanm societies. Despite their growing prominence in long diatnce exhcange, europeans were far from the only actors in early modern commerce. southeast asians, chinese, Indians, armenians, arbs, africans, and native Americans likewise played major roles in the making of the world economy during the early modern era.
Thus commerce joined empire as the twin creators of a global network during these centuries. Together they gave rise to new relationships, disrupted old patterns, brought distant peoples into contact with one another, enriched some, and impoverished or enslaved others". This was once again written from the book and I decided to write from the book because it would help me memorize what the chapter was about and also I thought it was an important section from the book. Another thing I shall wright down from the book and this chapter is from page 636 and I think this section is important to know, " Like tea from china and coffee from Ethiopia, chocolate from mesoamerica also became an elite beverage and an indicator of high status in Europe during the early modern era. It was the olmecs, the Maya and the Aztecs who first discovered how to process the seeds of the cacao tree into a chocolate drink. After the Spanish conquest of the aztec empire, that drink was introduced into Spain, where it became highly fashionable in court and aristocratic circles." Just one example from the book on how everything spread and how people from different countries started to learn different ways of living and eating.
"I have come full circle back to my destiny: from Africa to America and back to Africa. I could hear the cries and wails of my ancestors. I weep with them and for them." This is what an African American woman from Atlanta wrote in 2002 in the guest book of the cape coast castle, one of the many ports of embarkation for slaves located along the coast of Ghana in west Africa. there she no doubt saw the whips and leg irons used to discipline the captured africans as well as the windowless dungeons in which hundreds were crammed while waiting for the ships that would carry them across the Atlantic to the americas.
Almost certainly she also caught sight of the infamous " Gate of no return", through which the captives departed to their new life as slaves. The slave trade, however, was only one component of those international networks of exchange that shaped interactions during the centuries between 1450 and 1750. Europeans now smashed their way into the ancietn spice trade of the Indian can, developing new relationships with asian societies as a result. Silver obtained from mines in Spanish America, enriched Western Europe, even as much of it made its way to china, where it allowed europeans to participate more fully in the rich commerce of east Asia. Furs from North America and Siberia found a ready market in Europe and china, while the hunting and trapping of those fur- bearing animals transformed both natural environments and huanm societies. Despite their growing prominence in long diatnce exhcange, europeans were far from the only actors in early modern commerce. southeast asians, chinese, Indians, armenians, arbs, africans, and native Americans likewise played major roles in the making of the world economy during the early modern era.
Thus commerce joined empire as the twin creators of a global network during these centuries. Together they gave rise to new relationships, disrupted old patterns, brought distant peoples into contact with one another, enriched some, and impoverished or enslaved others". This was once again written from the book and I decided to write from the book because it would help me memorize what the chapter was about and also I thought it was an important section from the book. Another thing I shall wright down from the book and this chapter is from page 636 and I think this section is important to know, " Like tea from china and coffee from Ethiopia, chocolate from mesoamerica also became an elite beverage and an indicator of high status in Europe during the early modern era. It was the olmecs, the Maya and the Aztecs who first discovered how to process the seeds of the cacao tree into a chocolate drink. After the Spanish conquest of the aztec empire, that drink was introduced into Spain, where it became highly fashionable in court and aristocratic circles." Just one example from the book on how everything spread and how people from different countries started to learn different ways of living and eating.
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