HSTR 210A Lecture 2: HSTR 210 Lecture 2 : Encounters in Atlantic World
15 Sep 2016
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Hstr 240 lecture 2: encounters in the atlantic world. Long standing contacts between europe, asia and africa. Europeans haven"t travelled far; they had no knowledge and knew more of hear-say" of outlandish worlds of beyond what they knew. Trade connections with china and india were already existing with the silk road: sales and trade of silk and porcelain. What is happening in europe and in the world to lead to the discovery" of the new. World: how and why the europeans sailed. Marco polo was the first to bring a first hand account to europe about china, his account was sold as a text. Not of a majority of europeans could not read. Literacy was very limited: priesthood and church authorities were the literate within europe. 90-98% europeans, including the nobility, could not read nor write. Few works- books, publications- were not concerned with religion, marco polo changed this.
