HIS395H1 Lecture Notes - Human Migration, European Colonialism, Immigration
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Long history center focus on nation-centered historiography: we normally focus on the settled people instead of the migrants. In this class, we will focus on the migrants instead: 1500-1800. During this period of time, this was when columbus discovered america (the. Age of discovery), europeans tried to find ways to go to america as well as. There were whole series of major movements such as the african slave migration. Russian serfs this is also a period where russians migrated to siberia: there were different types of human migration and they have taken place in the second millennium. Human migration did not happen only during these times, there were earlier flows. Armenians, jews, greeks, indians, chinese, africans (eg. hausa) In the picture provided, each circle represented an area where people traded. There were movements of trade even before 1500: 19th to mid-20th century: age of mass migration , asian mobility revolution .
