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Was the African slave trade necessary for Great Britain's economic policy to work?
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MRKIRSCHNER | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
Great Britain's economic policy, mercantilism, required that the country export more goods than it imported. For this to happen, Britain needed to maintain its status as the world's strongest industrial power. Britain did this by acquiring colonies overseas. It was motivated to do this because it needed new markets for its finished goods. The colonies could also be used to supply raw materials for manufacturing.
The answer is No,
because Henry Hudson was a navigator and explorer who lived between 1561 and
1611. He explored the Arctic Ocean and NE North America. He was such a renowned
explorer. That geographical places bear his name. (Hudson River, Hudson
Strait, and Hudson Bay). Henry Hudson's ambition was to find a path from Europe
to Asia that did by Dutch companies.
All this is saying is that when the Europeans colonized Africa they did great damages to the social and political institutions of the natives on a local level, as opposed to necessarily a national level, due to the fact that power in Africa was relatively localized.
