HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Atlantic Slave Trade, Spice Trade, Spanish Dollar
26 May 2013
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Major transformation = change in global geography (p. 58) or change in awareness about human geography. Caused by: the new world the american continent. People who lived in americas and oceania were unaware of the europeans, africans, asians and arabs. People"s sheer knowledge of how the world is connected. Consciousness: people had no clue they were connected geographically. Osmanli turks (ottoman) = cousins of the mongols. Muslims (emerged from anatolia) highland of modern day turkey. Conquered constantinople in 1453 (roman empire) renamed it istanbul. Byzantine empire became the ottoman empire: cut europeans off from the overland route to the east (to get silk/spices from the asia) Routes from europe, across the land, into china and further down to the south to get silk and spices. Ottoman empire began expanding after took over byzantine empire. Spain was unified under the christian king and queen. Last of muslim kingdom (controlling spain) were kicked out, returned to north africa.
