HIST 439- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 18 pages long!)
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Where do our ideas about modern africa come from. Africa: birthplace of humanity, connected to ancient eurasia. Madeira, the azores, and sao tome- the latter with african slaves (1470s: european trading posts and forts in mozambique and angola (portuguese, 1500s), cape of south africa (dutch, 1650s), senegal (france, 1650s), gold. Coast of ghana (swedes/danes/dutch, 1650s: discovery of the americas, and establishment of mining and sugar plantations there, created a huge new market for african slaves in the. Europeans try to justify conquest: europeans still saw that africans and their civilizations had power-but increasingly, The atlantic slave trade and the rise of global racism. Slavery before the atlantic slave trade: slavery was an ancient, global institution, roman empire was a slave society, moors enslaved christians on medieval iberian peninsula; in reconquista, Christians enslaved moors: slavic people were enslaved in medieval europe, including in the iberian.
