The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution altered ideas about the place of humankind. They began to challenge the ideas of the church. Even though religion today is seen as something good because it is helpful for everyone. At the beginning of the Scientific Revolution the science wanted to legitimize racial and gender inequalities, by defining people of color and women being inferior. It seemed unfair that they would classify people. The Enlightenment thinking was directed against the superstition, ignorance, and corruption of established religion. I agree with the idea that the church was corrupted and many of the things that were being told to the people was to control them.

Religion and Their Power

Religion had the most power, but people began to see the down side of the church. The luxurious life of the opes, the corruption and immorality of some clergy, the church Church's selling indulgences. Then came Martin Luther who believed that the only way you would go to heaven is believing in the Bible, not the teachings of the church. I feel that this is true because the church was being corruptive, and I do not think this made people believe on what they would say.

The Atlantic Slave Trade

During the mid- fifteenth to the mid- nineteenth century the trade of 11 million African societies were being shipped across the Atlantic taking them to the Americas. Even though millions of them died in the process of capture and transport. They were not treaded like humans, they had forced labor, beating, and broken families. It was terrible that they were being treated that way when the european were being enriched. The slaves had no freedom and the worst part was that in some places their children also inherited the slave status of their parents. Those children did not have the opportunity to chose what to do with their own life. Slaves were seen as "dehumanized property, lacking any rights in the society of their owners."In the table we can see that at the mid- fifteenth century there was a rise in slave trade up to eighteenth century. Then there was a decline on the slave trade .

Sugar Production

There was four aspects of the sugar production. First, it grew better in the hot, moist areas. Second, sugar production is exceptionally labor-intensive. This meant that it required labor to be available year round. Third, sugar is viable when produced in large scale. Fourth, production of sugar for the market requires an initial stage of processing, making it. Sugar was definitly a type of production that was really intensive to get done. Especially for the enslaved African who were working in the production. The production of the sugar got more intensive as sugar became more popular. At the beginning sugar was only used as a medicine, but then everyone began to use it as a sweetener. There was more demand of sugar and the African had to work more.

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