Slavery and Labor
This form of unfree labor was a racialized, hereditary, and (in theory) permanent.
Atlantic slavery
This agricultural process occurred during the mid-17th-century and contributed to the exponential increase in West Africans being trafficked to the Americas.
Sugar Revolution
This man first landed in modern-day Bahamas in the late fifteenth-century (he did not think the world was flat).
Christopher Columbus
One leg of the transatlantic slave trade, this journey trafficked up to 15 million Africans to the Americas in horrific conditions.
Middle Passage
Occurring in mid-1700s North America, this phenomenon involved goods being more widely available and contributed to the rise of the middling classes.
Consumer Revolution
This colony in the Leeward Islands of the British West Indies was one of the most important sugar colonies in the Caribbean.
Barbados
This form of bound labor requires that the individual sign a contract selling their labor to a master for a set period of time in exchange for food, clothing, housing, and transportation to the Americas.
Indentured Servitude
This law was based on the economic concept of mercantilism, and it compelled merchants in every colony to ship goods directly to England in English ships.
Navigation Act (1651)
With a population of almost a quarter million people, this city "fell" in 1519, although its Indigenous inhabitants never disappeared.
Tenochtitlan
In this network, raw materials were extracted in the Americas and goods were produced in Europe and traded to Africa for enslaved people who were sent to the Americas.
Triangular Trade
This corporation was founded in 1621 to establish trade and colonies in the Americas in order to rival the Portuguese and Spanish (hint: it's not English).
Dutch West India Company
in 1517, upset with the Catholic Church, this man nailed his 95 theses to the door of the All Saints Cathedral in Wittenberg Germany, splitting the Church.
Martin Luther
This social and economic concept relies upon enslaved labor and large scale agriculture.
Plantation Complex
These state-sponsored monopolies were the ancestors to modern-day corporations, and involved monarchs investing in colonization efforts.
Joint-stock Companies
This Pre-columbian city in modern-day Missouri was once the home of 10-20,000 people and features the largest prehistoric earthwork in the Americas.
Cahokia