HIST 1377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Balkanization, Volta River, Royal African Company
25 Apr 2018
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General point: the atlantic slave trade from the course"s perspective is how africans were brought to the new world for nearly 400 years. Specific points: the two countries that immediately benefited from the age of discovery were portugal and spain. However, it was under alfonso v that world exploration reached its zenith. Dias was the first to round the southern end of the african continent. Da gama finished circumnavigating the african continent to reach india, japan, and. China, marco polo"s sources of great wealth: four years later in 1492, christopher columbus who was not looking for the new world landed in the caribbean islands of the bahamas, cuba, and most importantly haiti or. Columbus to do so, they forced the indians to dig in the mines for gold, twenty or more hours a day to find it. 2: a catholic priest, bartholomew" de las casas returned to spain to plead for the.
