Exam 19: The Atlantic System and Africa

Using Map (in the textbook) 19.3, discuss the incentives for Africans to participate in the slave trade. Were there internal pressures that motivated their participation?

One of the main sources of conflict between the Portuguese and the Dutch regarding Brazil was about what?

To reduce the risks of overseas trading, companies

Identify the following term(s). -plantocracy

Identify the following term(s). -mercantilism

Identify the following term(s). -manumission

While the British system of mercantilism was defined by the Navigation Acts, the French system used laws known as:

Describe the similarities and differences of the slave trade with regard to Christianity and Islam.

Both Muslims and Europeans obtained slaves from sub-Saharan Africa, but

Identify the following term(s). -driver

Sugar cane was first grown in the West Indies by Spanish colonists shortly after 1500, but after 1600 the crop switched. Why?

Plantation slaves were motivated to work hard to avoid which of the following:

Most slaves in the Islamic world were

Identify the following term(s). -Atlantic Circuit

In the eighteenth century, West Indian plantations were controlled by a plantocracy,

Among the planter elite in Saint Domingue, where would free blacks rank in the social hierarchy?

Refer to Map (in the textbook) 19.1 and discuss the different commodities traded. How did the rise of an Atlantic trading network lay the foundation for European wealth? How did the trade in these goods give Europe access to Asian markets?

Sugar plantations in the Caribbean caused environmental damage through soil exhaustion and deforestation as well as

Identify the following term(s). -Dutch West India Company