HIST 1093 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Azores, Musa I Of Mali, Human Nature
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Europe"s contact with non-europeans in the context of european and ottoman expansion: Papacy sent missions to the mongols to learn about them and then hopefully convert them to christianity. Expansion of europe out of mediterranean for trade. Began in modern day turkey and attacked the byzantine empire. Eventually crossed into europe and took over the balkans before then going back and conquering the byzantine empire by attacking constantinople. Europeans were beginning to expand in the atlantic. Italian traders were sailing through the straits of gibraltar and up the atlantic coast to trade with northern europe (cheaper than land) Ships from genoa wanted to turn south around the coast of africa - never came back. Italian and spanish soldiers could explore a good sized radius of the area in the. Mid 1480s portugal reached benin or the gold coast (which was what they were looking for)
