1450-1750+Africa+Theme+1


 * Theme #1 - Interaction between Humans and Environment**
 * Demography and Disease
 * Slave trade
 * Diseases spread easily from Columbian exchange
 * Populations moved by forced migrations
 * Migration
 * The vast majority of Africans sold into the Atlantic slave trade went to destinations in the Caribbean or the Americas. Most worked on plantations cultivating cash crops for export, although some worked as domestic servants, miners, or laborers. Together they made up the largest migration in history before the nineteenth century and gave rise to an African diaspora in the western hemisphere.
 * For three millennia, Bantu-speaking peoples migrated throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
 * Muslim merchants ventured to sub-Saharan Africa after the eighth century and brought trade that encouraged the formation of large kingdoms and empires.
 * Human cargoes migrated slaves.
 * 12,000,000 African slaves migrated to the western hemisphere of the world.
 * Millions of Africans underwent involuntary, forced migration to destinations in the Caribean and the Americas.
 * Patterns of Settlement
 * Technology
 * new technologies introduced from europe
 * gunpowder-based weaponry
 * iron tools