Chapter 14 Part 2

January 23

 Chapter 14(second half)

 -Asians and Asians Commerce 

  • European political control was limited to the philipphines, parts of Java and few other Spice islands
  • Japan was one of the few islands that Europeans could not penetrate
  • Japan had feudal lords, known as daimyo, and its own warriors samurais
  • By the early 17th century, remarkable military figures unified Japan because of the Tokugawa clan 
    • closed their country off from the emerging world of European commerce
      • although maintained their trading ties with China and Korea.
-Silver and Global Commerce 

  • Silver trade gave birth to global network of exchange
  • Spanish America produced around 85% of the worlds silver during the early modern era
  • Chinas huge economy demanded great amounts of silver
  • Much of silver shipped across the Atlantic to Spain was spent in Europe
  • The largest mine in the world was in Bolivia,
    • with horrible conditions for the miners
  • Latin America's silver enriched the Crown, making Spain the envy of its European rivals 
  • The value of silver dropped in early 17th century as Spain lost its position
    • countries started looking for raw materials
    • historians call this a “general crisis”
-"The World Hunt": Fur in Global Commerce

  • 2 Regions affected by fur demand (North America & Siberia)
    • Native Americans had lower resources 
    • animal extinction 
    • introduced "out of tradition" ways for the Natives
  • Trading relationships was mutual 
  • Allows the people (Natives) for self-determination between the decision of trade 
  • Russians=movement toward empire tribute system 
    • Siberians paid in fur
-Commerce in People:The Atlantic Slave Trade

  • 12.5 million people from African societies were shipped across the Atlantic 
    • introduction to the Middle Passage
    • 1.8 million died during the journey
  • African disbandment scaled into new societies issues of race that endure still to this day
  • Slavery became a metaphor for many kinds of social oppression
  • Workers protested the slavery of wage labor, colonized people rejected the slavery of imperial domination,and feminists sometimes defined patriarchy as a form of slavery.
-The Slave Trade in Context 

  • The Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas =mostlarge scale expression of owning and exchange of human beings
  • Slavery took place everywhere 
    • hoseholds
    • communities
    • farms 
    • factories
  • Children could inherit the slave status
  • Slavery in Americas had immense numbers in slave trafficking which brought...
    • increased economy
    • increased production of sugar, tobacco, cotton

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