The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

  1. Introduction
  2. European Role in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
    • The Portuguese
      1. What took them so long
      2. Why the Portuguese were the first to Africa
      3. Slavery comes naturally to the Portuguese
      4. Initial Portuguese exploration of West Africa
    • The Dutch
      1. Dutch Succession of Portuguese control of Africa
      2. European Advancement allows Sustinence of Trade
    • The English and The French
      1. English & French Succession to Dutch Domination of West African Trade
      2. England beats France in Struggle for Slave Trade
  3. To the Americas
    • Europeans in the Americas
    • Spanish America
      1. Initial settlement
      2. Gold and Indian Exploitation
      3. Expansion to the North and South
      4. From Gold to Sugar
      5. France Threatens Spanish Possessions
    • Portuguese America
      1. Sugar
      2. Background on Brazil
      3. Sugar and Slavery
  4. Conclusion

The Silk Road: Linking Europe and Asia

  1. Origins
  2. Spanning Two Continents
  3. Social Consequences of the Silk Road
  4. The Silk Road's Decline

The Saharan Trade: A Link Between Europe and Africa

  1. Saharan Trade and the Empire of Ghana
  2. The Gold-Salt Trade
  3. Saharan Trade During the Mali Empire
  4. The Songhay Empire and Trans-Saharan Trade
  5. Religion and the Trans-Saharan Trade

Transportation in Ancient Rome

  1. Roman Engineering
    2.
  2. What they Traded
    3.
  3. Land Travel; In Style or In Danger
    4.
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