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Voices from the Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade was an enormous enterprise and enormously significant in modern world history. The journey to slavery talked about Olaudah Equiano who was born in what is now Igbo-speaking region of Nigeria around 1745, and was seized from his home at age eleven and was sold into the Atlantic slave trade at the high point of the infamous commerce. He experience as a slave in the Americas was really different. He leaned how to read and write, travel as a seaman and later was allowed to buy his freedom in 1766. The Business of the slave trade was a horror imagination for kings and merchants. It was business for both Europeans and Africans. The slave trade and the kingdom of kongo occurred to what is now Angola. This state had Portuguese traders in the 1480s that could strengthen their regime. The slave trade and the kingdom of Asante arose in the eighteenth century. This was a powerful state that invested in the slave trade.

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Economic Transformation
In the Early 15th century the beginning of the Portuguese voyages was along the coast of West Africa. The first European exported slaves from West Africa in the 1440s. Columbus reached the Americans in 1492 and after that Vasco da Gama reached India. In the 17th century the Russian conquest of Siberia went down and later the British military began in India. Lastly in the 18th century, Peak of the trans- Atlantic slave trade begun.

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Political Transformations

Portuguese has established themselves along the coast of present day Brazil. In the early seventeenth century, the British, French, and Dutch launched colonial settlements along the earn coast of North America. Europeans extended their empires to encompass most of the Americas. Geography provided  a starting point for explaining Europe's American empires. Europeans bore advantages, despite their distance from home. Their states and trading companies enabled the effective mobilization o both human and material resources. In the early 1600s, Jamestown, VA: the first permanent English settlement in the Americas and the French colony was est. in Quebec. After in the 1700s, Fragmentation of Mughal Empire was est.