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Date Submitted: 09/19/2016 06:56 PM
Panayotis Kassiotis
Student No: 3413490
ARTS 1270
The Big Picture: An introduction to History
Second Historical Essay: The Rise of the Modern World.
How important (or unimportant) was slavery in the rise of global interactions between 1450 and 1800?
The historical period between 1450 and 1800 is one of the most influential as well as one of the most controversial in human history. It was a period in history that saw the rise of a particular form of slavery that has come to be known as the Atlantic slave trade system. This system founded by European merchants and businessmen starting with the Portuguese and Spanish, then later followed by the Dutch and finally the English saw the purchasing African captives from local rulers for the purposes of exploitation. It was a period of marked by heavy expansion in human social development, through forced migration of the transported slaves as well as economic development on behalf of both European and African ruling classes.
This essay will begin with a brief description of some previous models of slavery throughout history, it will then proceed to give an overview of the differences between those earlier models in comparison to the forms of slavery that were undertaken between the period of time between 1450 and 1800 so as to exhibit how these differences went on to affect global interactions. Secondly it will attempt to establish the affects that the Atlantic system had on global relations of the time by highlighting its role as an extensive business related operation that was made up and structured by many different and wide ranging contributors who came from not only Europe but Africa and the Americas as well. From here it will show that this diversity then created a triangular system of trade which would become the core of the entire Atlantic system. Finally it will endeavour to demonstrate that the Atlantic system in its use of slavery was instrumental in the diffusion of not only material goods, and people but also...