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Title: Three Worlds Collide


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Three Worlds Collide
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Three Worlds Collide
  • America, Africa, and Europe come together in the
    15th / 16th centuries

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America
  • South and Central America
  • Unified empires Aztec (Mexico) and Inca (Peru)
  • Population of millions
  • North America
  • Primarily small populations, widely dispersed
  • Nomadic / Semi Nomadic
  • No large scale civilizations at time of Euro
    arrival
  • Anasazi Mississipian cultures

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  • Monks Mound dominates the city known as
    Cahokia. The structure is 100 ft high, 16 acres
    at base

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Africa
  • West North Africa had long been in contact with
    Europe through trade
  • 1470s Portugal establishing trading posts along
    west Africa.
  • Gold, spices, ivory traded for iron, copper, and
    cloth
  • 1480s Portugal establishes sugar plantations
    off coast of Africaimports slaves from W. Africa
  • Slavery existed in Africa prior to European
    colonization, but differed greatly. Slaves were
    war captives or debtors, but not a hereditary
    status not racially based.

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  • 1791 Map of West Africa

Sao Tome Principe established as sugar
planations in the 1480s
Cape of Good Hope Vasco da Gama rounds in 1488
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Europe
  • An age of exploration begins in the 15th
    century
  • Reasons
  • Strong monarchs / nations
  • Growing populations
  • New tastes and interest in trade (Crusades and
    Renaissance)
  • Technology - Astrolabe, Lateen Sail, Compass
  • Portugal Spain in exploration race
  • Vasco da Gama goes east and rounds Africa in 1488
  • Columbus goes west in 1492

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