Category: Global Commodities*
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British Challenge to Spain for Gold in the Late 16th Century
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M012 Creator: Yoo Sang Jo ’19 East Asian Studies At the end of the 16th century, Spain easily conquered South America and plundered huge amounts of gold and jewels. Based on the plundering from various colonies and territorial expansion, Spain emerged as the most powerful nation in the world. Britain, which was…
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The Global Slave Trade 15th – 19th Century
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M011 Creator: Charles Gould ’20, History & Computer Science
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Trans-Atlantic Triangular Sugar Trades
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M010 Creator: Gi Moon Kim ’20 Biochemistry
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British Empire of a Foreign Drink
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M008 Creator: Xufeng Ma ’19 East Asian Studies Tea has been a drink deeply related to British culture for a long time, but it took a lot of work for tea to be blended into British daily life. This map captures where British got their tea from between the 1650s and the…
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The Sun that Never Sets: British Timber in the 18th – 20th Century
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M007 Creator: Jesse Klauber ’21 International Relations Following the collapse of their colonial structure, the British found themselves desperately in need of material. All eyes turned towards the vast swaths of land in the Caribbean, particularly on the coast of Central America, that was either uncolonized or loosely controlled by Spanish and…
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Opium Production After Opium War
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M006 Creator: Jinyeong Yim ’19 Cell & Development Cultivated from pre-historic times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotics. Historical records indicate that uses of opium had various purposes, such as food, medicine, and ritual. As more people acknowledged what opium can do, the market of opium expanded immensely in…
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Principle French and English Settlements and Fur Trading Territories 1665 – 1755
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M005 Creator: Sophia McRae ’19 History These maps portray two major phases of the North American fur trade up to 1755. The first map captures the earliest settlements and exploration of the east coast of North America by the mercantile powers of England, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The largest portion of…
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Spice Trade Map of Dutch East East India Company and British India Company
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M004 Creator: Doyoung Ahn ’19 East Asian Studies This map is about the spice trade of Dutch East India Company and British East India Company. The Dutch and British set up their own East India Company in the east in east Indian ocean regions and monopolized the spice trade. During the seventeenth…
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The Cotton Triangle
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M009 Creator: Joshua Allon ’21 History Cotton had humble beginnings in both India and Lancashire. However, over time, the U.K wanted more cotton, and in order to produce more, they had to find places with fertile soil to cultivate cotton. For production and exportation, the primary locations became India and China. It…
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Millenia of Growth: When the World’s Top 20 Coffee Producers Began Cultivating Coffee
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M002 Creator: Louis Herman ’20 Political Science This map shows the diverse and global history of coffee. Initially an Ethiopian crop, it soon spread to its neighbors, such as Tanzania and Uganda. Coffee cultivation in India started with Arab traders in the 17th century; from there it was spread to Indonesia by…