HST 202 Lecture : Lecture 3
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Portugal: unified under john i in the 1380s, lots of maritime experience due to geographic location, made advancedments in discovery of close islands where small native populations were, explorers: quickly wiped out by european disease. : explorer with a commitment to maritime discovery with money and determination to avoid muslim and italian middlemen in trade routes and made west african trade contacts by the 1440s. : sailed around the cape of good hope in 1487. : rounded cape of good hope and reached india in 1497. They had empires and knowledge of europeans/christians due to trade routes and written language used in islam. Europeans had no unique trade goods to offer. Germs were on their side: africans had been exposed to european germs through trade routes, europeans were afraid of malaria in africa. Portugal did not have enough sailing technology to launch a full invasion: transatlantic slave trade:
