HIS 315K Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Typhoid Fever, New Netherland, Saint Lawrence River
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(1500 ce) population growth following the bubonic plague. Business, subsistence activity, and trade are encouraged. A relative degree of prosperity is part of europe. Middle class (with a little bit of disposable income) is emerging and learning to read. With trade came exploration; people searching for easier ways to get to foreign luxuries. Portuguese sailors sail around the tip of africa to india, trading gold and ivory for slaves: first european slave trade; not the first ever slave trade. 1492 ottoman empire is defeated in spain: spain encouraged other european nations to invade holy lands. Isabella and ferdinand catholic kings of europe; thought anyone who wasn"t catholic was going to hell. No heretics in spain: non-christians (specifically jews) were sought out and made to either convert and conform, or die. Vasco de gama sails from portugal to india: columbus is sent to find a shorter route to india. Columbus sails to the caribbean and thinks it"s india.
