Zusammenfassung der Ressource
EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY
- The encounter that began in 1492 among the peoples of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
was one of the truly epochal events in world history
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF 1492
- Christopher Columbus's "discovery" of the New World was commemorated with a
massive "Columbian Exhibition"
- Identified Columbus with imperialism, colonialism, and conquest
- this cultral collision produced an extraordinary transformation in the new world, and it also
changes in the old world.
- SLAVERY AND SPANISH
COLONIZATION
- Slavery was a familiar institution to many sixteenth-century
Europeans
- Several factors made African slaves the cheapest and most expedient labor source.
- THE MAKING OF AMERICA
- TWO PERSPECTIVES
- LAND OF RICHES
- CANNIBALISM
- THE BLACK LEGEND
- The Black Legend provided powerful ideological sanction for English involvement in the New
World
- EUROPEAN COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL EXPANSION
- Christopher Columbus's voyages of discovery were part of a much broader
pattern of European commercial and financial expansion during the fifteenth
century