HISA04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Text Book : Interior Plateau, Deindustrialization, Navigation Acts
Document Summary
The incorporation of the americas into the world economy destroyed the new world"s indigenous populations and propelled europe into economic prosperity. Geography in the new world and how it affected it and europe. Geography played a big role in affecting europe"s ability to trade. Cheap british imports undercut many other less developed countries businesses and industrialization. But exporting local agricultural products could also promote farming and settlement, specifically in the americas. Colonists in north america made more money exporting to europe than colonists in south. Colonists in north america were closer to europe than south americans, and thus made more money exporting their goods to europe than south american colonists. America made it so that coastal regions could be accessed by the settlements in the inland through rivers, making exporting and internal and transatlantic trade easier and cheaper. Temperatures made it harder for europeans to settle in south america.
