Strayer, Chapter 15 (pp.433-448)

The Atlantic Slave Trade reminds the world of the problems it created and is still talked about now.  Why did we have slaves?  How come the farmers and land owners could not just pay the workers, instead of calling them slaves and hurting them?  Then in the Europeans and Asian Commerce, Asia had a growing intrest and recovery time from the European disaster from the Black Death.  In the fifteetnth century when the Europeans population was growing again and then Spain, Portugal, England, and France were then learning how to tax more efficiently and to build more military forces and better weapons.  the Portuguese then realized that if they took over by outgunning and outmaneuver other forces.  Spain then was the first to challenge the Portuguese, so they made the Philippines which was named after the Spanish king Philip II.  How come fur is so expensive? Why not just make warm clothes instead of skinning animals?