Reflection, Module 4:Transatlantic Slave Trade

       Module 4 is very eye opening simply because I learned a slew of things about how this African Slave Trade went into play. This module has showed a lot of facts that no one even thought about, such as the Portuguese starting the whole thing, every since I've been in school I thought the Europeans were the main ones to control the entire Slave Trade. But unfortunately during my whole school career has been a tall tale. Finding out that approx. 20 million slaves were traded during that time was outstanding to find out. Learning that in the different African Communities they didn't mind selling one another which made the African Slave trade industry grow was very saddening to find out, simply because treating people like animals were sickening. Over the fact that a simple opinion such as a change of religion. Also reading from the weekly assignment (Slavery and Spanish Colonization) finding out that the Portuguese trying to make Natives or "Indians" slaves at first wasn't working so they began to look for a different source, and that source turned out to be West Africa. Along with slavery came a great amount of Agriculture growing sugar was the main crop that had to began to boom during the 16th century. Spain and Portugal were the ones to began this whole trade situation, Sugar had became one of the highest product demanded during that time.
     Columbus's Voyages in 1492 had opened up a whole new world for the Atlantic Slave Trade. Allowing countries such as Spain, Portugal, France, Dutch, and England to establish colonies with in the Americas. The Caribbeans and Brazil was the place were the mass majorities of slaves went, which was an a astonishing fact to find out, because I always thought that the United States had the most slaves only to find out that the US had a small percentage of 4 -5%. Brazil received the most percentage of slaves they had over 40% , any British or  Caribbean had a percentage of 25% and any other Spanish country located in South America only received a small 7%. During this entire module I learned a lot of new information that needs to be taught every where textbooks should stop twisting these stories and reveal the truth. I am excited to continue to learn more about this era.

Rice, Claude. “Age of Exploration 1400s to 1700s - Ppt Video Online Download.” SlidePlayer, 8 Oct. 2017, slideplayer.com/slide/4653563/.

“Grade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic Slave Trade.” South African History Online, www.sahistory.org.za/article/grade-7-term-2-transatlantic-slave-trade.

Reflection, Module 3: European Exploration

This module I enjoyed reading about and learning about, only because it clarified things about who explored what and what actually was discovered. It definitely broke things down, and it didn't just talk about Christopher Columbus it talked about various colonizations and areas. It made things a lot more simple on where things were coming from and how they ended up, I definitely thought everything revolved around the British but unfortunately, that was not the case. I was stunned to learn that the Muslims were the ones to control most of the trading world during that time. This whole module really opened a horizon of things it basically opened a chapter that textbooks don't really include when reading a textbook it usually talks Christopher Columbus directly and what he thought he discovered. Knowing that he was sponsored by the "King" and "Queen" of Spain which wasn't really Spain yet, he didn't really know what was about to happen on this voyage. In this weeks videos and reading it did teach about how this whole thing came about. Learning that Portugal, Spain and also China were the most higher powers during the 1490s really made me rethink the Europeans ways of life. Textbooks made it seem like Britain was the higher power during this time period of the 14th through the 16th centuries. Knowing that was not the case it changes the whole perspective on how places were discovered, who discovered them and the reason they decided to take that voyage in the first place. Reading and learning things about these voyages opened up a whole new level of education, it was various things that led up to these discoveries and voyages. Such as religion, trade wars, and just wanting to rule in general.

https://brewminate.com/early-globalization-the-atlantic-world-1492-1650/

http://scihi.org/henry-navigator-discoveries/

MAMcIntosh. “Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650.” We're Never Far from Where We Were, 10 Feb. 2018, brewminate.com/early-globalization-the-atlantic-world-1492-1650/.