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  2. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    11.3 Rastafari movement. 11.4 ... It started the global silver trade from the 16th to 18th centuries and led to ... was the first to run the triangular trade, making ...

  3. Triangular trade - Wikipedia

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    A triangular trade is hypothesized to have taken place among ancient East Greece (and possibly Attica), Kommos, and Egypt. [40] A trade pattern which evolved before the American Revolutionary War among Great Britain, the Colonies of British North America, and British colonies in the Caribbean.

  4. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states ...

  5. John Hawkins (naval commander) - Wikipedia

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    The trade was so prosperous that, on his return to England, the College of Arms granted Hawkins a coat of arms which displays an enslaved male. Hawkins is widely considered to be the first English merchant to profit from the Triangle Trade ; trading English goods for enslaved people in Africa, then selling those people in the Americas and ...

  6. Proto-globalization - Wikipedia

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    The triangular trade or triangle trade was a system used to connect three areas of the world through trade. [43] Once traded, items and goods were shipped to other parts of the world, making the triangle trade a key to global trade. The Triangle Trade system was run by Europeans, increasing their global power. [43]

  7. Commercial revolution - Wikipedia

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    A triangular trade occurred in this period: between Africa, North and South America, and Europe; and it worked in the following way: Slaves came from Africa, and went to the Americas; raw materials came from the Americas and went to Europe; from there, finished goods came from Europe and were sold back to the Americas at a much higher price.

  8. History of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Much of the slave trade was conducted as part of the "triangular trade", a three-way exchange of slaves, rum, and sugar. Northern shippers purchased slaves using rum, made in New England from cane sugar, which was in turn grown in the Caribbean. This slave trade was generally able to fulfill labor needs in the South for the cultivation of ...

  9. Timeline of international trade - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.