AP World, Commerce, 1450-1750

1. Empires and Commerce
1450-1750

3. CHANGE in Global Commerce
SILVER!
• Silver was THE ITEM that really began
GLOBAL TRADE
• Chinese demand for silver and new silver
mines in Spanish America & Japan led to
global trade movement.

6. CHANGE in Global Commerce
TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE began
• Massive movement of people through the
slave trade from coasts of West Africa to the
Americas led by Europeans.
• Slave trade to fill demand for labor in
plantation agriculture in the Caribbean,
Brazil, and N America.
• Part of the Atlantic trade triangle

12. “New” trade connections
FUR TRADE
• Luxury furs exported from Russia and North
America .
• Variety of animal furs and varieties of
peoples involved in the trade.

14. New trading empires
EUROPEAN TRADING POST EMPIRES
• European nation-states controlled ports and
territories in the Americas, Africa, South &
Southeast Asia
• Increasingly Europeans carried the trade
goods of maritime trade…even the routes
that had existed before European arrival

16. Spanish Empire 1600s

17. Portuguese Empire 1600s

18. Dutch East India Company

23. JAPAN
• After a period of contact with Europeans,
Japanese isolate themselves from outsiders
while profiting from the silver trade and
keeping “watch” on outsiders.

30. Make a map that has the main trade routes +
Oceans- Atlantic, Indian, & Pacific
Seas- Mediterranean, Caribbean, & Black
Empires- Label each separately…
–Qing (Strayer p644)
–Mughal (645)
–Ottoman (647)
–Russian (682)
–Spanish, French, Dutch, English,
Portuguese territories. (682)