Trade and Early Colonization
Portugal trade in Africa and lessons are learned in colonies
Portugese Trading Posts
- Originally created in hopes of great wealth
- The island of Sao Tome turned in to another sugar island run by slaves
- Bartholomew Dias and Vasco Da Gama were the first to explore and set up trading post in Africa, then getting to India.
Portugese African Trading Posts
African Slave Boat
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Three key lessons to Colonization in the Mediterranean Atlantic
Significance
2) They had discovered that the native people of their islands could be either conquered or exploited.
3) They had developed a viable model of plantation slavery and a system for supplying nearly unlimited quantities of such workers.
These three lessons setup for other european nations to duplicate and slavery to become a world wide use.