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Section 25
1 Section 1
Objectives
• Indians of Central
Mexico cultivated
Agriculture squash, corn, and
led to the beans 3,500 years
growth of ago.
civilizations.
• Expanded food
supplies led to towns
and cities under
powerful chiefs.
Portuguese
mariners rounded • They sought gold
the southern tip of and salt, and they
Africa and enslaved Africans.
eventually
reached India. • Between 1500 and
1800, 11 million
But on the way, slaves crossed the
some mariners
Atlantic, a trip
stopped to trade
with West African known as the
nations. Middle Passage.
Europeans
Animals such
diversified
as pigs,
their own
horses, mules,
agriculture,
sheep and
adopting
cattle were
Indian crops
introduced to
such as maize
the Americas.
and potatoes.