UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dental Caries, Mercantilism, Chartered Company
4 Apr 2016
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Economic and political effects of global commerce: transoceanic trade affected mercantile groups as well as nations, rulers, and common people, extracting wealth: mercantilism, good and silver from the new world (the americas) to the old ii. Inspired by spanish and portuguese financial success, other. European powers also launched colonizing ventures in the new. World: sugar transformed the european diet as europeans imported. 12 million tons of sugar between 1690 and 1790, or one ton (2000 pounds) for every african slave: tooth decay became a leading cause of death for. Europeans: a new economic theory, mercantilism, drove european imperialism, this doctrine presumed that the world"s wealth was fixed and that one country"s wealth came at another"s expense. It was assumed that colonies existed to generate wealth for the motherland. 2: mercantilists believed the philosophy of thomas. India company and the dutch east india company. Indians as trading partners, military allies, and mates c.
