HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Planetary System, Toleration, Inductive Reasoning
28 Dec 2017
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Sept 12 class 2: chapters 16 and 17 (scientific revolution and enlightenment) Look similar (all men, except woman working to serve men) More than anywhere else in the world, the english developed an appetite for imported goods (such as sugar in their tea and coffee) 17th century tobacco imported from the new world: promoted as medicine and good for your health. Tea imported from china (china to africa to england, or china, russia, england more expensive) Even people who were not particularly rich were in some way tied to this economy (consuming sugar, coffee, tea, or tobacco) Relationship between trade in human slaves, trade in sugar and tobacco, and other products. Enslaved africans to caribbean islands, raw materials (sugar, coffee, tobacco) to england, manufactured goods to africa. Slave trade tied to economy of coffeeshops, producing print media, etc. Mortality rate so high, especially in west indies, that they constantly had to replenish (sugar plantation)
