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☆☆☆☆☆From Africa to America.
European technology caused China to accept more Western influence.
European slave traders mainly went to the coastal West African modern day nations such as Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
Other Africans captured and enslaved them. Opposing tribes would capture them.
the London stock company was a 'joint' stock company with the Virginia stock company
It's power was divided
They had no desire to exchange cultural ideas.
Some reasons why the caravel was a good ship for exploration were that they were agile and easier to navigate, with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and 1 to 3 masts, with lateen triangular sails allowing beating.
Being smaller and having a shallow keel, the caravel could sail upriver in shallow coastal waters. With the lateen sails attached, it was highly maneuverable and could sail much nearer the wind, while with the square Atlantic-type sails attached, it was very fast.
Race was important to the class system
Americanborn Spaniards were not as respectable as Spanishborn settlers.
It was not a success as a trading colony.
the English and the French fought a war in North America.
The period from 1526 to 1707 is known as Mughal India. Decline of the Mughal Empire started with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707.
The Aztecs thought Cortes was a messenger of their god
