MMW 13 Lecture 15: May 11 2018
16 May 2018
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Department
Course
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Atlantic Encounters (1400-1500)
● Fort/trade model
○ Set up a fort and traded
○ No integration
○ Mediterranean model
● Reconquest model
○ Create new towns and bring in other people to settle them
○ Iberian model
● Colonialism
○ The control of one state or territory by another
○ Different forms
■ Economic
■ Cultural
■ Political
○ Enrichment of the metropole at the expense of the colony
○ Exploitation of the colony’s peoples and resources solely for benefit of metropole
○ Little to no development of the colonial state
■ Infrastructure
■ Institutions
■ Economic systems
● African Atlantic Interactions
○ Kingdom of Kongo
■ Mbanza Kongo is the capital and had a slave market in the 14th c.
■ Tradition that only foreign-born captives were sold as slaves (POWs)
○ Portugal contacts Kongo in 1483
○ Convert to Christianity to appease the Portuguese and maintain good relations
■ Nzinga a Nkuwu converts and takes the name Joao I
■ Elites travel to Europe
○ Supply large number of slaves for Portuguese trade, but protect the native
Kongolese
■ The Portuguese needed the slaves to work the sugarcane fields on Cape
Verde
● Portuguese Empire -- 1492
○ Mainly off the African coast (lots of islands)
○ Canary Islands
○ Some places on the African coast in Morocco and the area near Ghana
● Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469)
○ Consolidation of two kingdoms
○ Reconquest peninsula complete when they took Granada in 1492
○ Spent a lot of money and want to make it back
● Iberian Atlantic Expansion
○ Conquest of the Canary Islands (1478-1496)
○ Guanches
■ Resist
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Document Summary
Create new towns and bring in other people to settle them. The control of one state or territory by another. Enrichment of the metropole at the expense of the colony. Exploitation of the colony"s peoples and resources solely for benefit of metropole. Little to no development of the colonial state. Mbanza kongo is the capital and had a slave market in the 14th c. Tradition that only foreign-born captives were sold as slaves (pows) Convert to christianity to appease the portuguese and maintain good relations. Nzinga a nkuwu converts and takes the name joao i. Supply large number of slaves for portuguese trade, but protect the native. The portuguese needed the slaves to work the sugarcane fields on cape. Mainly off the african coast (lots of islands) Some places on the african coast in morocco and the area near ghana. Reconquest peninsula complete when they took granada in 1492. Spent a lot of money and want to make it back.
