COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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by indentured servants
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by the Columbian Exchange
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by the indigenous populations
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by the trans-Atlantic slave trade
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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. What problem resulted from the creation of sugar plantations in Brazil during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Close working conditions helped diseases to spread.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sugar as a commodity touched many aspects of the Atlantic economy, brought millions of Africans to the Caribbean and to Brazil to cultivate the crop, and created a class of fabulously wealthy merchants and planters and a political interest group with significant power in European government.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the early days, sugar production used indigenous labor, immediately accessible and inexpensive, until production yielded enough to connect to the transatlantic trade of African slaves. The natives’ unwillingness to work the plantations, however, led to their violent enslavement.
Detailed explanation-4: -The demand for sugar drove the transatlantic slave trade, which saw 10-12 million enslaved people transported from Africa to the Americas, often to toil on sugar plantations. This voyage was called the Middle Passage, and was notorious for its brutality and inhumaneness.