Christopher Columbus : On October 12, 1492, Captain Christopher Columbus claimed a tiny island in the Bahamas (less than 400 miles from North America mainland) for the king and queen of Spain. Columbus’s landing facilitated the mutual discovery by two peoples of one another. The moment of Columbus's landing, the Americas became the stage for a variety of encounters of Native American, European, and African peoples in the new Atlantic world. (pg 25)
Atlantic world : The meeting of the Spaniards with local Tainos Indians was a critical step in the formation of the Atlantic world. After 1492, an emergent Atlantic world linked peoples from Europe, Africa, and North and South America, in colonial societies, coercive labor systems, trade networks, …show more content…
Through religious ties with wealthy Muslim rulers and merchants in North America and the Middle East, Mali’s merchants imported brass, copper, cloth, spices, manufactured goods, and Arabian horses. Their major exports were gold and slaves. (pg 26)
Kongo : Kongo was the most powerful and highly centralized kingdom in west Africa. By the fifteenth century, a welter of chiefdoms consolidated into four major kingdoms, Kongo being one of these. Their kings were chiefs who, after defeating neighboring chiefdoms, installed their own kin as local rulers of the newly conquered territories. (pg 27)
Renaissance : Renaissance’s literal meaning is rebirth. When Columbus reached Guanahaní in 1492, Western Europe was undergoing a cultural Renaissance. Intellectuals and poets rediscovered Europe’s descent from a classical tradition originating in ancient Greece and Rome but obscured for a thousand years. Western European scholars found scores of forgotten ancient texts in philosophy, science, medicine, geography, and other subjects, and a rich tradition of commentary on them by Muslim, eastern orthodox, and Jewish scholars. Armed with the new learning, renaissance authors drove to reconcile ancient philosophy with Christian faith, to explore the mysteries of nature, to map the world, and to explain the motions of the heavens. The Renaissance was also an era of intense artistic creativity. …show more content…
First, the unprecedented magnitude of the trade resulted in demographic catastrophe for West Africa and it's peoples. Before the Atlantic slave trade finally ended in the 19th century, nearly 12 million Africans would be shipped in terrible conditions across the seas. Slavery on this scale had been unknown to Europeans since the collapse of the Roman empire. Second, African slaves were subjected to new extremes of dehumanization. Africans enslaved by Europeans were regarded as property rather than as persons of low status. By 1600, the “new slavery” had become a central, brutal component of the Atlantic world. (pg 36)
Columbian exchange : The emerging Atlantic world linked not only peoples but also animals, plants, and germs from Europe, Africa, and the Americas in a Columbian exchange. After 1492, vast numbers of African Americans died because they lacked antibodies that could resist infectious disease is brought by Europeans and Africans. From the first year as a contact, epidemics scourged defenseless Indian communities. Whole villages perished at once, with no one left to bury the dead. Such devastation directly facilitated European colonization everywhere in the Americas, whether company by military effort or not.
Atlantic world : The meeting of the Spaniards with local Tainos Indians was a critical step in the formation of the Atlantic world. After 1492, an emergent Atlantic world linked peoples from Europe, Africa, and North and South America, in colonial societies, coercive labor systems, trade networks, …show more content…
Through religious ties with wealthy Muslim rulers and merchants in North America and the Middle East, Mali’s merchants imported brass, copper, cloth, spices, manufactured goods, and Arabian horses. Their major exports were gold and slaves. (pg 26)
Kongo : Kongo was the most powerful and highly centralized kingdom in west Africa. By the fifteenth century, a welter of chiefdoms consolidated into four major kingdoms, Kongo being one of these. Their kings were chiefs who, after defeating neighboring chiefdoms, installed their own kin as local rulers of the newly conquered territories. (pg 27)
Renaissance : Renaissance’s literal meaning is rebirth. When Columbus reached Guanahaní in 1492, Western Europe was undergoing a cultural Renaissance. Intellectuals and poets rediscovered Europe’s descent from a classical tradition originating in ancient Greece and Rome but obscured for a thousand years. Western European scholars found scores of forgotten ancient texts in philosophy, science, medicine, geography, and other subjects, and a rich tradition of commentary on them by Muslim, eastern orthodox, and Jewish scholars. Armed with the new learning, renaissance authors drove to reconcile ancient philosophy with Christian faith, to explore the mysteries of nature, to map the world, and to explain the motions of the heavens. The Renaissance was also an era of intense artistic creativity. …show more content…
First, the unprecedented magnitude of the trade resulted in demographic catastrophe for West Africa and it's peoples. Before the Atlantic slave trade finally ended in the 19th century, nearly 12 million Africans would be shipped in terrible conditions across the seas. Slavery on this scale had been unknown to Europeans since the collapse of the Roman empire. Second, African slaves were subjected to new extremes of dehumanization. Africans enslaved by Europeans were regarded as property rather than as persons of low status. By 1600, the “new slavery” had become a central, brutal component of the Atlantic world. (pg 36)
Columbian exchange : The emerging Atlantic world linked not only peoples but also animals, plants, and germs from Europe, Africa, and the Americas in a Columbian exchange. After 1492, vast numbers of African Americans died because they lacked antibodies that could resist infectious disease is brought by Europeans and Africans. From the first year as a contact, epidemics scourged defenseless Indian communities. Whole villages perished at once, with no one left to bury the dead. Such devastation directly facilitated European colonization everywhere in the Americas, whether company by military effort or not.