01:512:103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sub-Saharan Africa, New World Crops, Reconquista

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: American History Courses
• Course: 01:512:103
• Professor: Professor Mitchell

Document Summary

Europeans had a very progressive knowledge on geography, technology and weaponry. They enriched their country with those resources as well as started planning to conquest other areas. Explorer jean de lery said that the americas were so different than what they have witnessed before that they can easily name it the new world. Colonization literally alienated the land from its native inhabitants. In particular, the colonizers accidentally introduced despised weeds, detested vermin, and deadly microbes. All three did far more damage to native peoples and their nature than to the colonists (locations 706). Visionary europeans hoped to weaken their enemy and enrich themselves by seeking an alternative trade route by sea to bypass muslim merchants and. Turkish tax collectors to reach sub-saharan africa and east asia (locations733). Europeans wanted to find ways to be not behind the muslims. They published more books to so that people would read more about the expansions and the areas that they could conquer.