HIST 1082 Study Guide - Total Depravity, Middle Ages, Musa I Of Mali
Document Summary
European perspectives on foreign cultures and early european expansion 10/3/12: europeans came into contact with new culture groups, encountered cultures with a lot of mental baggage of what the cultures should be like. Sub-saharan africans: voyages from italy to northern europe set out with different goals, 1330s, italian and spanish sailors have mastered sailing within a triangle between the azores islands, canary islands, and gibraltar. From bases in azores and canary islands, portugese started explorations in africa: sailing down west coast of africa caused navigational problems, cape bojador has trade winds blowing in two different directions, causing treacherous waters. One and only true faith and defined christiandom in religious and cultural terms polluting society. Became increasingly intolerant and saw others as threatening and: weren"t tolerant of jews, heretics, and muslims but had frequent contact with them, had well defined places within european culture. Islanders and ottomans never really had contact: european ideas of non-christians came from biblical and classical teachings.
