HISTORY 2CS3 Lecture 1: On the Eve of 1492
23 Jan 2020
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Learning outcomes: describe the contacts between africans and europeans, both in africa and in. Europe, before the period of the transatlantic slave trade: describe european colonization efforts in the eastern atlantic and understand their relevance for colonization attempts in the americas. In many ways, european events precipitated the events discussed in this course. A brief summary of european background in the late 15th century: 2. Factors that lead to european expansion in the atlantic world (portuguese and spanish) Europeans began to explore the atlantic world (coast of africa and the americas) in the early 15th century: portugal and spain were early leaders. English and french explorers were exploring the north american coast by the 16th century. Historic period called the renaissance" set the stage for european exploration of: new learning contributed to growing interest in the world outside of, these discoveries and ideas moved from italy to other parts of europe.
