What the Trade Networks Did
Portugal built the first network
- The Portuguese established a commercial network along the African coast, in South and East Asia, and in South America in the late 15th and throughout the 16th centuries.
- The CED gives the geography precisely: three regions and roughly a century.
- A commercial network is a chain of posts along a route, which is the trading-post model rather than territorial rule.
Select all the regions the CED places the Portuguese network in.
Late 15th and throughout the 16th centuries.
The centre of European economic power moved
- The exchange of goods shifted the centre of economic power in Europe from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic states and brought the latter into an expanding world economy.
- That is a change inside Europe caused by activity outside it — the cleanest example in the unit.
- Italian cities that had dominated the Mediterranean trade did not decline because they got worse; the routes moved.
The centre of European economic power shifted from the Mediterranean to...
A change inside Europe caused by activity outside it.
The Columbian Exchange, both ways
- The exchange of new plants, animals and diseases — the Columbian Exchange — created economic opportunities for Europeans.
- In some cases it also facilitated European subjugation and destruction of indigenous peoples, particularly in the Americas.
- The CED writes both sentences, and an answer that gives only one has quoted half the subtopic.
Economic impact, social impact, or the network itself?
Sort each item by which objective it answers.
Select all three results the CED names for colonial expansion.
The CED states them plainly, and the exam expects them stated plainly.
The CED writes both halves of the Columbian Exchange. It created economic opportunities for Europeans and in some cases facilitated European subjugation and destruction of indigenous peoples. An answer giving only opportunity, or only destruction, has quoted half of what it is answering from.
The CED describes the Columbian Exchange only as an economic opportunity.
It also says it in some cases facilitated subjugation and destruction.
The full statement of the consequences
- Europe's colonial expansion led to a global exchange of goods, flora, fauna, cultural practices and diseases, resulting in the destruction of some indigenous civilisations, a shift toward European dominance, and the expansion of the trade in enslaved persons.
- Three named results: destruction, dominance, an expanded trade in enslaved persons.
- The CED states them plainly, and the exam expects them stated plainly too.
Match each piece of evidence to its objective.
Two objectives, and they take different evidence.
Economic and social impacts, separately
- This subtopic carries two objectives — economic impact and social and cultural impact — and they take different evidence.
- Economic: the Atlantic shift, new goods, and the profits of a network.
- Social and cultural: cultural practices exchanged, civilisations destroyed, and populations enslaved.
Venice does not become worse at trade in 1500. The goods that had made it rich begin arriving by a route that does not pass it. That is what "the centre of economic power shifted" means, and it is why a change outside Europe reorganised power inside it.
The Portuguese established a commercial network along the African coast, in South and East Asia and in South America. The exchange of goods shifted the centre of European economic power from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic states. The Columbian Exchange created economic opportunities for Europeans and in some cases facilitated subjugation and destruction of indigenous peoples, with expansion resulting in destruction of some indigenous civilisations, a shift toward European dominance, and the expansion of the trade in enslaved persons.