European Expansion Of Africa And The Americas

Advances in technology included farming techniques, written alphabet, weapon and firearm capabilities, and building techniques took place. Religion was also brought from Afro Eurasia into the Americas for the first time. There was also a huge exchange of plant life, which both sides were impacted by. Naturally this included crops grown for food. This had a large impact on the availability of certain products in both Afro Eurasia and the Americas. It also changed some of the cuisine, having an affect on popular foods and just simply what was available in certain areas. Not only was it plant life having a profound effect on the foods people ate, but also animals. There were a large number of animals that were new to both sides of the Exchange. Some of these animals could be raised on a ranch for their meat like, pigs, cattle, chickens, sheep, and goats. Others to be ridden for transportation, work or just as companions like horses and dogs.

Illnesses such as smallpox killed the majority of Native American populations significantly weakening the Naive Americans allowing for Europeans to more easily conquer them. The transfer of crops from the Americas to Europe allowed for a more population growth and shaped their cuisine to this day. Potatoes and native to the Americas yet they are and were a staple of European diets, most notably the Irish. European discovery of resources in the Americas led to millions of African slaves being shipped to the Americas to work in mines or plantations. This widespread slave trade has influences race relations to this day.

Africa’s Discovery of Europe, written by David Northrup and much as its name implies, is a monograph detailing Sub-Saharan Africa, starting from 1450 to 1850. This broad timespread starts just before Columbus sailed the ocean blue and ends just beyond the Industrial Revolution. Originally published in 2002, Northrup intended for readers to see Europe from a different perspective; from the lense of African people. The title, Africa’s Discovery of Europe, is interesting within itself. In many cases, majority of people believe it was Europe that opened up the world and conquered the Americas and discovered all this new land, and a sliver of that is true, so many countries surrounding Europe were already major, active players in the modernizing world already. In this case, as Europe was discovering Africa, Africa was also discovering Europe. It switches the mind of the reader from a Eurocentric role to an African one. Northrup discusses how contact was not one-sided, and depicts accurate descriptions of African interactions amongst other Africans and Europeans. Northrup shows the reader that African people were discovering Europe very actively, not passively; African people physically go to European countries and have first-hand experiences with European people and lifestyles.

At first Native Americans, Europeans and Africans were separated by the vast oceans in between their continents, but as technologies and trade in Europe advanced the three region’s worlds collided. There were various similarities and differences in policy, economy and religion amongst the three regions but alas, contact between these empires reaped inevitable change among all these for the better or worse.

The civilizations of America, Africa, and Europe each had their own political, economic, and religious systems that changed drastically when people from each continent encountered one another. In the Americas, the Native Americans had developed large and massive empires that would come to marvel the world. In Africa, there were are also large empires, home to millions of people. Western Europe on the other hand did not have any large empires or well organized societies. However, this would all change when the Europeans came in contact with the people in the Americas and Africa. It would be the Europeans that rose up while the other races fell.

Multiple large-scale transformations were generated by Europe. For example, one major transformation that the European empires caused would collapse Native American societies as they were. Yet another of these transformations would be the introduction as it were of trade. Europeans were capable of exchanging plants and animals which facetted the creation of better crops in the Americas. With a large amount of plantation workers in the Americas, Europe was able to link with America and Europe to form the cotton and Sugar trade.

About 200 million years ago there was one big continent called Pangaea. They believed that, this landmass began to separate. They believed that the Atlantic Ocean formed, dividing Africa and Eurasia from the Americas. Over the next several million years plants and animals changed and made to separate biological worlds. It wasn’t until Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed to the Americas in October 1492, they started interacting with each other.

The spread of Europeans into the Western Hemisphere was an advancement because of the exchange of culture, goods, and technology yet it was also a step backwards for human civilizations because of the loss of Native American and African lives and culture as well as an increase in the slave trade.

Between 1492 and 1750, Africa and the Americas engaged in the Columbian Exchange. Many changes took place in both countries during this time period, falling into two important categories, demographic and environmental effects. In the case of the Americas and Africa, many similarities and differences exist. In the case of demographic effects, both the Americas and Africa experienced disease, however, disease took a greater toll on Americans than Africans. This important change led to both the Americas and Africa facing changes in the number of females and males within the country, however, while the number of males increased in the Americas, the number of males decreased in Africa. Connecting back to changes in population, there was also surpluses and increase in childbirth in the Americas and Africa, due to the introduction of many new crops. In the case of environmental effects, America faced more significant changes than Africa.

Many historical events were created when the Europeans first came to the Americas. The Europeans brought many diseases, animals, new technologies, and their political structures in the Americas, or the New World. In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond states many arguments about these events. This paper will take you through different topics about the Europeans and their culture and agriculture in the Americas. In this paper I will be talking about diseases that came from Europe to Americas, then I will talk about animals that were diffused to America. After that I will talk about Europeans developing a political structure in the Americas. Finally, to end of the paper, I will talk about maritime technology. In this paper I will

Pre-1600s civilizations in Africa, gain, consolidate, and maintain power by these 3 civilizations: Ghana, Mali and Songhai. In Ghana’s part, society was used as technology, trading and independance. In Mali’s part, Wealth was used for valuing survival, education, and money (gold). In Songhai’s part, Economics was used for controlling and province. Also pre-1600s in Americans, gain, consolidate, and maintain power by these 3 civilizations: Aztecs, Mayas, and The Incas and they all had different religions. In Aztecs part, Enterprise was used for resources

The social, economic, and political impacts of the Europes first contact with The New have been incredibly enormous, completely changing the world from what it once was. From the beginning of the 16th Century when Columbus landed, to the first colony, Jamestown, the transformations that occurred have been profound, reaching the entire world.

The Colonial expansion was the name of the movement, They incited this to spread the belief of the catholic faith. During this time, it was said that over 16 million Spaniards emigrated to Latin America. There were several hardships that they may have faced along the way. Hunger and disease were obvious problems of this time, but it also could've been difficult to learn the environment along with the language that comes with it. If I was in their shoes, I would've stockpiled salt and meat, then I would've gotten a translator.

It is easy to assume that, through their colonization campaigns, Europeans were responsible for the intellectual and technological advancements of much of the world. This eurocentric view is not wrong, but it does not tell the whole story. Post-Renaissance Europeans gladly spread (although mostly forced) their newfound knowledge upon those which they conquered. However, were it not for these lands (see: Southwest Asia, India, the Middle East), Europe may have never grown to prosperity. For a large chunk of its history, Europe was a “backwash.” For example, the population of Europe in its entirety was roughly 60 million in the year 1100. In contrast, the population of only the Song Dynasty in China was “100 million people” at the same time.

Latin America is one of the less developed when compared to different parts of the world. The colonization era highly affected Latin American, making Latin America less developed than other countries. Latin America used to be rich in terms of resources, containing an abundance of resources that made these lands valuable for other countries. Among its resources, the lands of Latin America produced gold and silver. In the era of colonization many Europeans colonizers were able to conquer land and make use of them by taking all of the valuable resources. They also had more advantages, making it easier to colonize in Latin America. Latin America fell behind in levels of developments when Europeans colonized Latin America, used force against natives to extract resources and created extractive institutions that led to high inequality in Latin America.