Cape Verde

Take Home Midterm The Columbian exchange started in 1492, with Christopher Columbus landing on the shores of San Salvador. It was the start of new technological advances but the start of disease spreading across the world. The Columbian Exchange was also the start of one of the most significant results of the Age of Exploration and the First Global Age. This was a start of a New World (Americas) and it influenced technology, farming, disease, and cultural life for both the New World (the…

These islands, as well as the Azores and Canaries, had been known to the earlier Middle Ages; they were now rediscovered and exploited by the Portuguese (the Azores ca. 1439), except the Canaries, which fell under the control of Castile. The Cape Verde Islands, much farther to the south, were discovered and settled in 1455-1460. Colonization of these islands was important for the entire subsequent history of Iberian expansion: they provided bases for voyages to the New World and for the…

“I am not the man I once was. I do not want to back in time, to be the second son the second man.” (Vasco da Gama) Vasco da Gama was a navigator who made history when he founded the first route to India. He was awarded two different important titles. Vasco da Gama was one of the most successful and important explorers to the Renaissance time period. Vasco da Gama was born into a noble family around 1460 in Sines Portugal. He was the son of Estêvão da Gama. When he was old enough he joined the…

of Discovery and the Atlantic slave trade. Henry was also the third surviving son of King John 1 and Phillipa of Lancaster. In 1441, two of Henry’s captains, Antam Goncalves and Nuno Tristao, set out separately, to Cape Blanco on the western coast of Africa. To the south of the Cape they came across a market run by black…

Introdution About Book The fictional novel, that is, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali was first published as Longman Africa Classic 1986 and subsequently as Longman Africa Writers 1994. This version of the story was recorded in 1960 by D.T. Niane, who documented and translated the words of a griot, Mamadou Kouyaté, into French. While it follows the basic structure of the tale as most often presented, it should be remembered that as an oral tradition and a result of a translation. This story is one…

the US to a C grade. I had to do an oral exam only in Mathematics that was not my strength at all. Children that do not pass the oral test would not pass the subject and the subject had to be taken another year. Through high school years, still in Cape Verde Islands, it was based through tests and exams. We had “another big exam” with the same system that we use to get through high school. This time it was to allow us to get to pre-college. At that time, students had to do it because lots of…

Hurricane Andrew was the third largest hurricane that struck the southeast part of the United States on August 24, 1992. “Andrew was a small and ferocious Cape Verde hurricane that wrought unprecedented economic devastation along a path through the northwestern Bahamas, the southern Florida peninsula, and south-central Louisiana” (Rappaport, 2014). Before Hurricane Andrew struck land it was reported as being a category 4 storm, but was later updated as a category 5 that pass through the…

Despite obvious differences, a key aspect of these interactions was that although lacking a form of concrete political control, the Africans at Cape Verde revered status from birth and property ownership (Crone, 54). This knowledge and similarity to European reverence of social hierarchy would be essential to future establishment of trade in the region, enabling European merchants to operate in a…

1. The Native Americans were able to explore and settle the Americas by the 600 mile wide “land bridge.” The land bridge was made up of massive glaciers that stretched from Northern Siberia to Alaska. The Native Americans actually lived on the Bering land bridge for 15,000 years, but once the last ice age ended the land bridge flooded which caused many Native Americans to migrate to regions of the Americas. After arriving in the Americas different groups of people began to spread out across the…

slaves to do the hard work. They could have used Americans as slaves but many of them died from European diseases. This new market was inspired in the successful voyage to India and the establishment of sugar plantations on Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verde Islands and rather than trading slaves back to Muslim merchants, there was an emerging market for agricultural workers on the plantations. The trip to the Americas was known as the Middle Passage. Slaves were chained together tightly into…