Expansion
In 1750, this was starting to happen around the world instead of just locally.
Trade
The company began in this year.
1600
The transatlantic slave trading route was shaped like this.
US President, Donald Trump, has done this for the first time in recent history.
Charged tax on goods coming to the US from Canada.
Sending your goods for sale out of the country.
Export
We can thank these people for the expansion of the civilized world.
Explorers
The company was made up of merchants from this country.
England
Captured slaves were mostly taken from this part of Africa.
West coast near the Atlantic Ocean (e.g. Nigeria)
Rather than build settlements in China and India, the traders did this.
Built a port and sold goods from the dock.
A system where a country exerts its power to take over another country.
Imperialism
This is one reason why a king would hire an explorer.
To find new resources (sources of wealth), to claim new land for the country (place for settlers to live).
The merchants were able to make a lot of money because the emperor promised them this.
No taxes or fees to trade with India
The slaves that were bought by their owners in the US mostly did this work.
Picking cotton on the plantations
The Dutch and the English had this advantage (name ONE).
Fast ships and joint-stock companies
Bringing goods into the country for sale.
Import
This is the name given to places outside the country that the king decided he owned.
Colonies
This country got involved in fighting for power when the emperor died.
France
The slave runners used to make the captured slaves do this once a day during the voyage by ship.
Exercise on the ship's deck to keep them healthy.
Name ONE ancient civilization that participated in keeping slaves.
Egypt, Greece, Rome
The system that encouraged people in the colonies to buy European exports, while taxing imports.
Mercantilism
The French gave this name to what is now Canada.
New France
The East India Company became the most powerful commercial power in the world after this happened.
The English fought the French and won
The slave traders did this in order to fit more captured slaves on their ships.
Made them lie on their sides.
The slave trade lasted for this many years.
300
A company that allowed people to have a share in the profits.
Joint-stock company