Chapter 14 - Economic Transformation

Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama

________ and his Portuguese successors sailed into a world of Indian Ocean trade, regularly unlike anything they had ever seen before.

slave trade

Slavery in the Americas and the Atlantic ________ was the most recent large- scale manifestations of a very common human practice: the ownership and exchange of human people.

vulnerable outsiders

Slaves were ________ "in their masters 'society worldwide, although they may be incorporated into their owners 'homes, lineages, or communities in many areas.

Indian Ocean

The Dutch and English, who both entered the ________ trade in the early seventeenth century, were far more significant as European competitors for the spice trade than the Spanish.

Indian Ocean

The Portuguese established a "trading post empire "in the ________, to control trade rather than vast territory or populations, and doing so by the power of armies rather than economic rivalry.

Vasco da Gama

________ and his Portuguese successors sailed into a world of Indian Ocean trade, regularly unlike anything they had ever seen before.

Silver

"traveled across the world and made the world go round."

Dutch and English

The ________, who both entered the Indian Ocean trade in the early seventeenth century, were far more significant as European competitors for the spice trade than the Spanish.