Global European Enterprises and
European Fortunes in Asia and the Americas
I. The Slave Trade and
the Plantation Complex: An
Early Global Enterprise
A. Triangle Trades in the AtlanticII. Results: Reorientation in the Americas and Asia
1. Basic Pattern of Trade
2. Reason for Trade Structure
B. Who ran the trade?
1. 1500-1700
2. Objections to Monopoly
3. 1700-End of the Slave Trade
C. Asian Trade and Its Role in European and Asian Development
1. Plantations and Early Colonization, 1500-1800
a. Europeans take over some control or total control of an area
b. Reorient Economy
A. Saint Domingue (Haiti)
B. China
C. India
A. Key Inventions and Key Sectors
B. New Groups and Institutions
C. Ties to the Colonies
Key Terms:
Triangle Trade
Cash Crops
Manufactured Goods
Slaves
Mercantilism
Spain: asiento de negros
Portugal: Private Trade
Britain: Royal African Company
France: Royal West India Company, commerce exclusif
Dutch Republic: Dutch West India Company
Planters
Haitian Revolution (1789-1804)
French Revolution
Estates General (called 1789)
grands blancs
petits blancs
gens de coleur
Vincent Ogé
François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture
Qing Dynasty
Lord McCartney Mission, 1793
Opium War (1839-1842)
Treaty of Nanking
Treaty Ports
Canton, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai
most-favored nation status
extraterritoriality
missionaries
Robert Clive (1725-1774)
Battle of Plassey 1757
nawab of Bengal
English (British) East India Company
mass production
division of labor: Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795)
mechanization: water frame, Richard Arkwright
(1732-1792)
puddling, Henry Cort (1740-1800), 1784
steam engine, James Watt (1739-1819), 1769
factories
urbanization
child and female labor
industrial class
professionals