International Trading : What did the Empire do for us?

1. International Trading : What did the Empire do for us?

2. CONTENTS • The Trade With Australia • Items That Were Traded • Consequences Of Trading In India • Opium Wars • Slave Routes • Slavery Through The Eyes Of Slaves • Slaves In Africa • How Slaves Were Treated • Sum It All Up

3. The trade with Australia One of the big issues about Federation concerned trade Cattle and sheep arrive in the colony, overland from New South Wales, brought by Joseph Hawdon. First wool exports - 4 bales - to England in the Orator - 21 May Australia was a help to Britain

4. Items of trade • Britain as well as other countries traded many items to take back to their countries here are a few examples. • Sugar to sweeten up their food from Barbados and Jamaica. • Tea a very popular drink especially when sugar came to Britain from China for Opium. • Spices so that food had more flavour like ginger and nutmeg. • Fruit did you know that Queen Victoria had never seen a pineapple until an emporial trader brought one back from Jamaica.

5. More items of Trade. • Coco beans to make chocolate and moisturiser . • Gold and silver. • Materials like silk. • And dye for clothes. • Also cotton from Africa.

6. The consequence of trading in India In 1497, the Portuguese king sent the navigator Vasco da Gama to find a sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa. Da Gama reached the port of Kozhikode (Calicut) on the Malabar coast on June 18, 1498. The Portuguese set up a trading empire in the Indian Ocean, capturing and fortifying all the leading trading ports.

7. THE OPIUMWAR THING • "The Opium War was not about Opium. It was either about the clash of two cultures, or about Britain's desire to expand the trade”. • 19th century Chinese Green tea popular. • England wants tea so trades Opium [illegal drug.] • China have laws against Opium so they declare war. • England won war and were rewarded with Hong Kong as British territory. • In 1856 a second war broke out.

8. This trade is called The Trade Triangle. It went from Europe to Africa to America.Then back again to Europe. The colonists in the Americas also made direct slaving voyages to Africa, which did not follow the triangular route. This trade increased after 1800, particularly in Brazil. Although the slave trade expanded the British Empire, and it helped us to have more knowledge of the world. I think that the British could have done it differently. Slave Routes

9. A.L.Burton Annie L. Burtonwas born in Clayton. Alabama in 1858. Her mother was a house slave, but returned after the civil war when all the slaves were freed. H.Jacobs Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina in 1813. Harriet's mother, Delilah, was the slave of John Horniblow.Delilah died when Harriet was six years old and was brought up by her grandmother

10. The Slave Trade • 10 MILLION AFRICAN SLAVES

11. Slaves were treated brutally How the slaves were treated (10/14/02 11:35:55) Slaves even had to wear muzzles.

12. Slaves were sometimes left to die. Slaves were sometimes taken from their children. On ships, some slaves got dysentry or even small pox.

13. If a ship caught fire, the owners would escape, leaving the slaves to die.

14. Sum it all up So we’ve given you all the information on the British trade and empire.But now its your turn to decide whether or not the British empire is good or bad.Using the comments of our fellow team mates what do you think would of happened if we had never traded. • Ricky – No, because we wouldn’t have a multi-cultural society • Samuel – Yes because we would have discovered everything later. • Gary- It would not be the same because we would be eating the same food every day. • Frederick – Technology would be a lot slower. • Adetokunbo- No, because we would not have had a multiple of choices. • George- No, because we would not have as much knowledge of other countries.