chapter 14

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.