Review for the World That Trade Created

In trade routes and otherwise greed led to violence. This was demonstrate through slavery, piracy, and defy of ivory and opium. African slavery began from greed Europeans needed labor to fuel their enceinte calling productions and manufacturing of the traded goods. Mesoamerican slavery and destruction was ca roled by the Spanish conquistadors in their infamous quest for gold, god, and glory. by means of greed the conquistadors decimated an entire civilization to obtain their gold.However the British and Dutch reaped many economic benefits of this perhaps even without knowledge of where their wealth had come from. Piracy, excessively fueled by greed, began as small bands, alone eventually transformed into colossal companies of corporal raiders. The demanding trade of ivory and opium came from greed and addiction. They became key luxury items for loaded Europeans, and it was the incentive for wars and violence. Pommeranz demonstrates throughout chapter five that greed led to violence.Gold, God, and Glory powered everything in the beginning. The Spanish enslaved the Aztecs when they conquered them to booster them with sugar production rates, increasing their profit. The Spanish also attempted to convert the Aztecs to Catholisism, and if they rebelled, they were forced into slavery in the name of God. Lastly, they were immensley proud because they managed to conquer the Aztecs, claiming the estate of the realm as their own while also beginning the use of slavery.Slavery was also pertinnent later in history when the Dutch, seeking revenge upon the Spanish while also being enticed by the wealth sugar trade brought, conquered a port in Brazil, controling the sugar trade. However, they did non have enough slaves to take advantage of the sugar, so although they opposed it at first, travelled to African ports and obtained slaves by exchanging luxury goods for human lives. Although the Portuguese regaiined control of the sugar production in Brazil, the Dutch still use the advantages of slavery in Africa and the exploitation of human lives that were not theirs to control.Lastly, Robinson Crusoe eventually learned to abandon his ideas of self adequacy and rejection of luxury, and entered into the slave trade, enticed by the wealth it would bring him. Before corporations, there were family ties. Blood was the medium that bound unitedly the many companies of the time. One example of such a family company was Samuel Rosenfelders fur trading house. As Rosenfelder added to his company, he also prepared his son goop to take over the company in the future. Eventually, Max would continue passing the company to his three sons.However, by the 1600s, there was an obvious advantage to using corporations to clear business. Corporations were impersonal alliances that provided a logical and easy way to do business on a largeglobalscale. The first corporations were anonymous with wide distributions of power and not really necessary until the railro ad hollering in the 1830s. However, these corporations gave birth to something useful at the time corporate raiders. With the amount of sea trade that was happening, corporate raiders became the new pirates.Made of refugees, criminals, runaways, and mercenaries, corporate raiders are referred to as multinational, multiethnic, democratic bands of sea rovers. Although they had less dignity and were much violent than traditional pirates, corporate raiders were often favored in the eyes of the law, signifying governments liaison in trade. After all, trade was a fruitful source of income. As the greed and available wealth grew, so did violence on the seas. The history of trade has taught us a lesson about greed, and the horrors it can pass away to.Greed for products often leads towards violence. Two outstanding examples of this were the result of Great Britains greed for Chinese Tea, and mightiness Leopolds desire to begin an ivory market. Hooked on the imported Chinese Tea, Britis h mint had little to offer in return. Struggling to find compensation for their needed beverage, the British discovered the advantages of trading opium for tea. Easily seducing the Chinese with a cheep alternative for compensation, their greed for tea only grew.Becoming snug with their trading situation, the British were infuriated when the Chinese attempted to stop the Opium Trade. Finally resulting in battles between the British and Chinese, (know as the Opium Wars), the British were guaranteed their tea, and granted what they wanted, at the cost of violence. power Leopold II, the monarch of Belgium. Having a lack of colonies, King Leopolds only hope for new territory would be in Africa. He began to show arouse in Africa by change state an advocate for illegal slave trade and other issues thus becoming popular among the African eople. Building roads, hospitals, and other infrastructure the African population began to acquire a rigid trust for him. Starting his turn on Africa , King Leopold began to use African mercenaries in 1879 to control the Kongo. His reasons for this were to control much land in Africa and declare the seized land his property. Gaining wealth from the trading the abundant ivory, his greed for land and tusks only grew. Natives were eventually brutalized, ears and limbs were severed off of those that opposed him.After leaving piles of dead elephants for the natives to discard, his soldiers sailed stilt the congo river shooting the Lunda, or Mongo for sport. King Leopolds greed for wealth from ivory trade brought ugly violence to the people of Africa, and caused a decrease in the elephant population. Both the trade of tea, and ivory caused greed for those who sought after it, and when the threat of a stop to the trade presented itself, violence was the only answer, today we can see the alike pattern carrying out as it did hundreds of years ago, as greed for oil grows.