Mercenary motivated by
Renaissance spirit (ambition to create)
Commerce
commodities exchanged with foreign countries
Sir Walter Raleigh
Established first english settlement in america
why did Walter Raleigh have sir in his name
he was knighted
Magistrate
one who has authority to rile over foreign land
encomienda
gives authority to magistrate to heavily tax and enslave indigenous people (was a land grant)
Peons
People enslaved by encomiendas
Due to forced immigration
decline of power economically, politically, militarilly
male slave known as
buck
female slave known as
wench
What was the route to the ship
kingdom to cell to door to no return to ship
cells
were made by slaves and they stayed there until sent to ship
Columbian Exchange
transfer of people plants animals ideas and diseases
triangular trade
trade of commodities
Dehumanization of Africans
considered cargo, a commodity, started with the hunt (considered hunting when capturing africans), and they were caged and chained.
Middle passage was which leg of triangular trade
2nd
what occured on the ship
Suicide, rrape, disease, mutinies and revolts
were revolts sucessful
No they were not because africans were strategically placed on the ship so they could not communicate, and africans didn’t know how to control a ship
why did disease spread
They were chained and confined in small space with no bathroom breaks
When people died what happened
They laid in their own waste in a small area
what did slaves try to do
jump overboard when they had the chance to get to upperdeck
what did slaves do on upperdeck
they were cleaned with salt water and forced to dance so they were healthy (more profit)
Why did they clean them
to try to stop disease
Loose Pack
Had more space so less disease so less deaths but had less slaves; loose pack had slaves and cargo
Tight pack
Had no cargo only slaves; many slaved died but there were still MANY slaves
Which one was more profitable, loose or tight
both equally had pros and cons
Which slaves were always shackled
Male slaves; women and children had some freedom
Why did sharks follow slave ships
They threw away people who looked like they were gunna die and dead people so it was food for sharkc
Great migration of Europeans
Mass emigration of puritans and other Europeans to the new world
Why did large number come to New World
to escape persecution (punished for beliefs, usually religion)
what was the government body in england
Church of England
Purtitans
Wanted to be cleansed of rights and rituals of church
Seperatists
wanted to seperate from church because of rights and rituals
Portestants
Protested against church
Others
due to joint stock companies
Joint stock companies
pull money to invest in an enterprise; they7 sent people to set up shop and send money to parent company
Major join stock companies
Massachusetts Bay company, Virginia Company, Plymouth Company