The profits of European colonialism had a profound impact both in the Americas and back in Europe. An exchange of ideas, fueled and financed in part by New World commodities, began to connect European nations and to touch the parts of the world that Europeans conquered.
I think European colonialism changed many parts of the world. I find it interesting how new goods from the Americas helped spread ideas and connect different countries.
The dungeon of the Elmina Castle was converted into a holding pen for African slaves from the interior of the continent, while on the upper floors Portuguese traders ate, slept, and prayed in a chapel.
I think it is sad that enslaved Africans were kept in the dungeon while Portuguese traders lived comfortably upstairs. This shows how unfair and cruel the slave trade was.
Although the Portuguese originally used their African colonies and fortresses such as Elmina primarily for trading gold, by the sixteenth century they had shifted their focus
I did not know that they traded gold up until the 16th century.
Cod had been fished in the North Atlantic at least since the period of Viking exploration, 800 to 1000 CE. The Vikings and the Basques used similar techniques, catching fish close to shore and then drying them on wooden racks assembled on nearby beaches
I think it is interesting that Vikings and Basques caught and dried cod in similar ways. This shows how people used simple methods to preserve fish long ago.
he Vikings and the Basques used similar techniques, catching fish close to shore and then drying them on wooden racks assembled on nearby beache
It is crazy to me how much fishing has changed in my opinion overtime. Nowdays people normally put them in livewells until they are ready to be eaten.
he discovery of the Norse village in 1960 and its acceptance as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978 established the Newfoundland colony as the oldest known European site in the Americas, and very probably as part of the Vinland settlement of Norse legends. The Canadian ruins date from the appropriate period, around 1000 CE
I find this discovery interesting because it shows that the Norse reached North America around 1000 CE, long before Columbus. I think the Newfoundland ruins are strong evidence that this was part of the legendary Vinland settlement
the middle of the fourteenth century, a four hundred-year period of global cooling known as the Little Ice Age began.
I did not know about this and find it very interesting that is lasted 400 years and is known as the little ice age.
The forests of Markland would have been especially interesting to explorers from Greenland, because the Norse settlements there lacked trees for building
it is very interesting that they found natural resources like that very interesting whereas that is something we see on the daily basis.
t is honorable for a state to back an exploit by a public [corporation] rather than a private monopoly.
I feel like it is good for the government to one public company rather then a private one.
Provided that ships may pass up those rivers to the Staples, so far as the same be navigable into the land.
This reminds me of the cargo ships we see now days having to go into land to bring goods from across the world in order for other people to survive.
on Friday the fourteenth of May early in the morning we made the land, being full of fair trees, the land somewhat low, certain hummocks or hills lying into the land, the shore full of white sand, but very stony or rocky.
It is surreal to me that they were able to make the land even tho it had alot of poor natural resources at the time and yet they were still successful.
Mesoamericans were polytheistic; their gods possessed both male and female traits and many demanded blood sacrifices of enemies taken in battle or even sometimes from the people themselves through ritual bloodletting.
I think this is interesting that mesoamericans were like this and possessed both male and female. Bloodletting is a scary but also very interesting part of history.
The sacrificial ceremony included cutting open the chest of a victim (usually but now always a criminal or captured warrior) with an obsidian knife and removing the still-beating hear
It is crazy to me that one would do this, and growing up around this and also witnessing this type of death.
Women typically cultivated corn, beans, and squash and harvested nuts and berries, while men hunted, fished, and provided protection
I feel like this is a how todays world is just in a different form. In todays society women normally are told to cook while the men work to help provide for the family.
There is some evidence of chattel slavery, in which people are treated as personal property to be bought and sold, in the Nile Valley.
I think is so sad and no one should ever have to go through this however I also feel like this is an important part of history.
Sea levels were about 360 feet lower than they are at present, so a landmass as wide as Alaska was exposed that connected what is now eastern Siberia with what is now western North America
Lower sea levels exposed a large land bridge, called Beringia, that connected Asia to North America. I find that very interesting how water can affect the world for a lifetime and create new things.