HIST 1500Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paolo Dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Europeanisation, Amazon River
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Slide 1: module 2: 1492, 1498 and global disasters. No text, except a quotation from adam smith, the wealth of nations, 1776 the discovery of america and that of a passage to india are the greatest and most important events recorded in human history . Not in itself but because of its consequences. It was a relatively beautiful day, and columbus could have been nothing in history since there was other landings. Salvador had a sustained and intense follow-up that triggered forced incorporation of the americas into the global network. 3. forced migrations from africa led to slave trade. 5. europeanization of the americas both north and south. Slide 3 (not) in search of the americas, but a westward route to asia (the indies ) Fabulous riches, luxuries, and supposedly christian allies. Proposal was 3x rejected because columbus" assumptions were erroneous: the. Earth one-third smaller, miscalculated length of degree at the equator; asia much larger marco polo; other authorities: ptolemy, cardinal d"ailly,toscanelli.