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US HISTORY. ADVENT OF THE EUROPEANS TO BRITISH SUPREMACY
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Improvemen t in technology: Religious Conflict: Expanding Trade Developing Nation States
Enormous multiethnic empires, such as Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe, were breaking up, replacing the small kingdoms and the multi ethnic empires were nation- states.
Improvemen t in technology: Religious Conflict: Expanding Trade Developing Nation States
Enormous multiethnic empires, such as Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe, were breaking up, replacing the small kingdoms and the multi ethnic empires were nation- states.
Countries in which the majority of people shared both a common cultured common loyalty toward a central government.
SPAIN: In 8th century, invaders from North Africa known as Moors, rapidly conquered most of which is now Spain. Over the next several centuries, Spanish Christians reconquered much of the land.
Monarchs of France, England and Netherlands depended on trade to bring in needed revenues and on the church to justify their right to rule.
Two of the largest of these kingdoms united when Isabella, queen of Castile, and Ferdinand, kind of Aragon, married in
the Portuguese who realized the route south along the West African coast east to China was the shortest path, found it more They used their power to search for riches abroad and to spread the influence of their version of Christianity to new overseas dominions.
reconquered much of the land.
Two of the largest of these kingdoms united when Isabella, queen of Castile, and Ferdinand, kind of Aragon, married in
the Portuguese who realized the route south along the West African coast east to China was the shortest path, found it more promising. They used their power to search for riches abroad and to spread the influence of their version of Christianity to new overseas dominions.
In 1492, under their leadership, Spanish conquered the last moorish stronghold on Spain, the city of Granada. In that year, the monarchs also funded Columbus on his first voyage. Voyages of exploration sponsored by Portg’s prince Henry eventually succeeded in opening up a long sea route around South Africa’s cape of good hope. In 1498, the Portuguese sea captain, Vasco Da Gama was the first
Northern Europe:
In 15 century, Portuguese began trading for slaves from west Africa. They used the slaves to work on new established sugar plantations on the islands off the African coast.
It was so profitable producing sugar with slave labor that when europeans established colonies in the Americas, they used the slave system there.
African Resistance: they resisted slavery in whatever
they used the slave system there.
African Resistance: they resisted slavery in whatever ways they could. Though transported thousands of miles away from home their homelands and brutally repressed, they ran away, sabotaged work or revolted. The conflict also caused the catholics of Spain and Portugal and the protestants of England and Holland want to spread their own versions of Christianity to people in Africa, Asia and Americas. For generations they maintained aspects of their African culture, particularly in music, religion and folkways.