Answer to Question #236442 in History for barbie

Question

1. Define the terms below, and explain why you think they are importance in world history:

1. The Atlantic Slave Trade (10 marks; 100 words)
2. The Age of Revolutions (10 marks; 100 words)

Answer 1

Question 1

From the 16th through the 19th centuries, between 10 and 12 million enslaved Africans were carried over the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas as part of the global slave trade. Slavery had a critical part in the contemporary world economy's growth. Slaves provided the workforce that allowed the New World to be settled and developed. Sugar, tobacco, coffee, cocoa, and cotton were all produced by slaves for the first mass consumer markets. Slavery did not produce a significant portion of the capital that financed Europe's industrial revolution (profits from the slave trade and New World plantations did not amount to 5% of Britain's national income at the start of the Industrial Revolution).

Question 2

From the late 18th to the mid-19th century, the Age of Revolution saw several important revolutionary movements across much of Europe and the Americas. It sparked the French Revolution in 1789, which quickly expanded throughout Europe thanks to its conflicts. The revolutions of this period were significant in shaping our modern international system because they contributed to the replacement of absolutist monarchies with representative governments based on a written constitution of rights and the formation of nation-states based on shared values.