CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

• Indian Ocean Network: Change

  entrance and massive power grabs of european states into this network
• Middle Eastern, South Asian, East Asian, and Southeast Asian merchants continued to use India Ocean Network
• European entrance into the trade network

  Increased profits for themselves and many of these merchants who had always used the network for trade
• Long established merchants like the Gujarati continue to make use of Indian Ocean Network
• Despite growing european dominance on the sea, overland routes like the Silk Roads were still almost entirely controlled by various Asian land-based powers
• Asian land-based powers

  • Ming China
  • Qing
  • Ottoman Empire
• Peasant and artisan labor continued in many regions as demand for food and consumer goods increased as a result of multiplying trade connections
• Atlantic System Changes

  • opening of the atlantic system
  • sugar
  • silver
  • coerced labor
• opening of the atlantic system created the movement of goods, wealth, and laborers between the eastern and western hemisphere made Europeans rich and powerful
• effects of silver

  • used to purchase luxury goods from china
  • satisfied the chinese demand for silver
  • further developed the commercialization of China's economy
  • goods that silver purchased were traded on the atlantic system
  • further enriched all who participated
• coerced labor

  • forced indigenous labor
  • indentured servitude
  • african slavery