HIS263Y1 Lecture : Early European-Aboriginal Interactions
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The new framework for studying history represents a shift away from the views of the nation-state as the unit of analysis towards the atlantic ocean as the unit of analysis. This framework takes into account all four continents that touch on the atlantic: The atlantic as a highway that allows for activity between the continents (trans- Atlantic activity) such as trading networks, migration networks, disease network, ideology network. atlantic world period (roughly 1500 1800), an era of early exploration is the name of this framework, concentrating on the early-modern the end of this period marks the rise of the nation-state. The scandinavians were the mariners of the world. skill on the seas, fearsome capacity for war: leif eirksson. he arrives in 1000 ad, at an attractive location (boasting relatively mild climate) dubbing it vinland (wine land) There is debate as to where vinland is, but there is evidence that it was the ne tip of newfoundland.
