history

• A colony is a group of countries ruled under one
• The first successful colony would come in 1607 when English colonist founded Jamestown , Virginia
• 1621 Virginia was exporting 160,000 kg tobacco per year to Britain
• American revolution 1775-1783
• East India company -an English company formed for the Exploiatation of trade with east and southeast Asia
• Name 2 empires

  • Roman empire
  • ottoman empire
• slavery- The treatment of human beings as property and deprived of their personal rights
• Enslaved - Someone who has been forced into slavery
• freedom- the power for someone to act , speak and think for themselves
• Transatlantic - The trade that involves Asian, Arab and European networks that enslaved African people
• Trafficking-the illegal trade of people
• Abolitionist- A person or group working against slavery
• Slavery started with a small amount of people being captured during war
• When we talk about the term slave trade we about speaking about the time period of history where African people where being traded