HIS 826 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cloning, Spice Trade, Atlantic Slave Trade
23 Jan 2021
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HIS 826 – Lecture 09 2/25/2020
Cloning Europe: How Europeans Transferred their Material, Biological and Intellectual
Culture
- Europeans created ‘new Europe’ by importing:
o Material culture: technology, tools, fashion
o Creating warfare alliance
o Importing domesticated plants and animas
o Importing intellectual culture and institutions
- Why were they successful in world conquests according to Europeans?
o Moral superiority: Indigenous peoples were characterized as morally corrupt
o Technological superiority: different priorities in different civilizations
- Spanish vs. Portuguese Empires:
o Portuguese imperial ambitions: wanted the East Indies to control select cities for
export trade and capture the spice trade from Ottoman Turks and Venice
o Acquired territory in Africa: started the Atlantic slave trade
o Acquired territory in South America: claimed Brazil due to Tordesillas Line
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