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Treatment of Native Peoples • Europeans believed in white supremacy – European culture, religion, language was better than that of the natives • Forced natives to become Christians • Enslaved natives Native Americans did not make good slaves • Contracted diseases easily; millions died from epidemics of small pox, measles, influenza • Could not work in hot, dry conditions; many died from heat exhaustion, overexposure Slavery Slavery • Natives knew the area well so they could escape easily • Portugal already had factories on the West Coast of Africa • As a result, Spain began to import Africans as forced labor on sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean Triangular Trade • Ships sailed between Europe, Africa, and the Americas • European ships carried manufactured goods, such as knives, swords, guns, cloth, and rum • African ships carried enslaved people • American ships carried raw materials, such as sugar, molasses, cotton, and tobacco Triangula Trad Middle Passage • Journey from the west coast of Africa to the Americas = Middle Passage • 10-24 million Africans brought on slave ships (12 million estimate in textbook) • 10%-20% Africans did not survive the journey Middle Passage: pg. 450-451 African Captives Thrown Overboard Sharks followed the slave ships! Consequences of the Age of Exploration/Columbian Exchange 1. Native populations ravaged by disease. 2. Influx of gold, and especially silver, into Europe created an inflationary economic climate. [“Price Revolution”] 3. New products introduced across the continents [“Columbian Exchange”]. 4. Deepened colonial rivalries. Effects in Africa • Coastal Kingdoms gain power, but Europeans ensure limited power • Coastal kingdoms use European tech to expand over neighbors (more slaves) • Asante (Ashanti) example of a Kingdom which rose to power through European aid.