2.5 S&P / slavetrade

• History
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

End of the Indians

-Modern guns

-Horses

-Smallpox

-Siege to the city

Modern problems, require modern solutions

-Famine broke out

-Spaniards got impatiant

-Different lifestyles

What would be the solution to this problem?

1. Just go home
2. Use Spanish labour
3. Import African slaves
4. Treat the Indians better

Africa to the rescue

-Strong enslaved people

-Captives/prisoners

-African traders -

loved to trade

Transatlantic slave trade

Why could the trading with West-African slave traders, lead to even more African slaves?

Why would slaves be forced to eat?

The transport of the slave

Middle passage -

Mortality rates of 22.5% -

Not that profitable -

All over the America's -

Why would they continue the slavetrade if it wasn't very profitable?

Using 5 words, explain how Columbus his exploration, led to the TA-ST