Explore the creation of the Atlantic World and the triangular trade in this lesson on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Students will learn how the spread of tropical diseases impacted the New World and led to the expansion of slavery. They will also study the grueling middle passage and lives of enslaved Africans in the Americas. Topics covered include: The Treaty of Tordesillas, the West Indies (Caribbean), Brazil, cash crops, sugarcane, malaria, yellow fever, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Elmin