319 Cuba: An Early American History
Ben Franklin's World
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The Key of the Indies
Cuba served as an important transportation hub in the caribbian but how else does this island fit within the larger world of the atlantic economy that really develops between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Because you have made land, america, europe, africa and different caribbean islands all trading with each other. What role did cuba play in this larger set of exchanges? It plays an enormous role. And that's why younow it comes to be called the key o the indies. When the spanish king gives havana a steal, it's the key because that was its role. So we see that kind of european covetousness of
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