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Title: The Origins of the Euro-American World


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The Origins of the Euro-American World
  • Intro
  • Geo-Political Position of Europe in the 15th
    Century
  • Imagining Geographies
  • Mastering the Atlantic
  • Ecological Imperialism
  • Note http//www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/jamesm

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Seminar Question for Week 6
  • What are the "different approaches to the term
    landscape" (193) that Seymour identifies? What
    complications does she point to in interpreting
    the meaning of landscapes?

3
Geo-Political Position of Europe
  • Fall of Constantinople, 1453
  • Sense of geographic and religious claustrophobia
  • Reconquista
  • Union of Aragorn and Castille (Ferdinand and
    Isabella), 1469

4
Major Trade Routes Muslim World, 1500
5
Imagining Geographies
  • Popular press
  • Henry the Navigator
  • Norse colonies
  • Antilia Hy-Brazil
  • Columbus the size of the world

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North Atlantic Basin
9
LAnse aux Meadows
10
Techniques, Technology, and Knowledge
  • Spanish Portugese Navigators
  • Caravel
  • Navigation
  • Trade Winds Westerlies
  • Volta de mar
  • Canaries
  • Azores
  • Madeira
  • Guanches

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Ocean Winds - January
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Ocean Winds - July
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Columbus
  • Distance to Asia
  • Everyone 10,000-12,000 miles
  • Columbus 3,500 miles
  • Indians
  • Hispaniola
  • 300,000 in 1492
  • 33,000 in 1510
  • 500 in 1548
  • John Cabot Newfoundland
  • Amerigo Vespucci

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Ecological Imperialism
  • 50 million people in Americas 1492
  • Virgin soil epidemics
  • 50 right away
  • 90 over time
  • Smallpox
  • Why?
  • Trade
  • Urbanization
  • Domesticated animals
  • Weeds, rats, livestock
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