feb 1, 1625 - - Brit slowly take over Carribbean bc Spanish = weakened by raids and smuggling - Euro's naval wars - Fought the most, conq the most colonies, imported slaves and went the fastest/ furthest at dev of plantation syst - Port no longer the one supp most of Euro's ff fr Brazil - Eng dev own sources of ff fr: Barbados, Jamaica, etc. and learnt methods of prod ff fr the Dutch (used to have experiments by thwarted by Portugal)
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feb 1, 1625
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~ 401 years ago