How Did Indian Ocean Trade Affect The Europeans

Worlds Apart Unite With Western Europe having fewer resources and economic opportunities, they chose to explore and expand. Once Europe rulers had established overland trade, traders hoped to find alternate sea routes that would be able to bypass already set trading routes and give them access to the wealth of the East. These rulers and their governments saw this wealth open and ready for the taking. Finding these routes caused war between governments and affected both Europe and the countries they explored. Over the next century, the control of trade, expansion of land, and exploration across seas alternated from one European country to the next. Having the desire for new goods, Europeans were pushed towards areas of the world they were

These new trades and manufacturing of goods stimulated economic changes in Europe. With growing demand for goods and not enough laborers, Portuguese and other Europeans relied on slave trade. This was the major factor that simulated the economy in Europe. Slave labor was cheap, so African slaves became the most sought after commodity. In Africa, the elites and tribal leaders benefited the most from slave trade. They became wealthy since they were selling off people from their tribes. Europeans were trading goods for slaves by the boatload to work in Europe and in the New

The problem of Mexican colonial farming, as of most colonial farming, was that of recruiting an adequate supply of labour while at the same time keeping the price of labour down. (Birmingham) Because of this, land as well as people in the Americas was captured and used for cultivation. Native Americans and African slaves were forced to work in these farming lands to produce sugar, tobacco, and other crops. The Columbian Exchange provided the Natives with many new crops and animals, but they paid a heavy price for