geographic and economic causes of large scale slavery
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Geographic and
Economic Causes of Large
Scale Slavery
Isolated Peoples
The Slavs
TraditionsTraditions
West
RomeOccidentNon-CentralizedInteraction
East
ByzantiumOrientCentralizedIsolation
The most continuously productive sources of slaves in human history
The Dalmatian Coast
Western Europe and the Middle East took Slaves
from the Dalmatian Coast for Six Centuries
Dubrovnik is the Western Bastion
Centuries Before the African Slave Trade,
Turkish Raiders Took Hundreds of
Thousands of Russian as Slaves
Slavs were so widely sold into bondage, the word SLAV
becomes the word for SLAVE in many Western European languages.
It also become the word for SLAVE in ARABIC
It was cheaper to send grain from Russia to the Dalmatian
Coast along the Dnieper River and Black Sea, through the Dardanelles and into the Adriatic then it was to take
grain from Serajevo to Dubruznik
Dnieper River to Dalmatia
• SarajevoSarajevoToTo
• DubrovnikDubrovnik
Big Escarpment a few miles in from the Adriatic Sea. Grooves
within the mountains leave the Slavs
isolated
Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire
AFRICA
Smooth Coastline of Sub Sahara Africa
Very few harbors for Ocean Going Vessels
Lack of Navigable Rivers
Dearth of Navigable Rivers or Streams
Escarpments and Rift Valleys
Rivers of Africa
Rivers of Europe
Shorter Coastline than EuropeShortest Coastline of all
ContinentsLack of Indentations for
Natural Harbors
Relief Map of Europe
Shallow Coastal Waterways
Trade is much more expensive
Ships must anchor off shore
Thin Coastal Plain (20 miles)
Then an Escarpment
No Ports
No Great Cities
Nigeria Slave Slave CoastCoast
Ghana Gold Gold CoastCoast
Corte Ivories Ivory Ivory CoastCoast
Tsetse Fly
Malaria
Slavery
Islamic Jihad
