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Scenarios about 'atlantic world'

The network of cultural, economic, and political connections linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 15th to 19th centuries. This transoceanic system was characterized by the Columbian Exchange, triangular trade patterns, colonial expansion, and forced migration through the Atlantic slave trade, fundamentally reshaping societies on four continents and establishing enduring patterns of global interaction and power.

What If Slavery Was Abolished Earlier in the Americas?

Exploring how world history would have unfolded if the transatlantic slave trade and slavery had been abolished in the 18th century rather than the 19th, fundamentally altering the development of the Americas and global economic systems.