Chapter 1:
1) What was the primary cause of European colonization?
Primary cause was financial gain (precious metals)
Others causes were religious missions, to escape persecution (religious, ethnic)
2) What were the origins of slavery and the slave trade?
Arabs & Africans had traded slaves for centuries
Europeans caused their slave output to greatly increase b/c slaves were needed in New World to work on farms/plantations
3) What was the economic consequence of Columbus’s discovery?
Spain…
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