1460 Jan 25

Racial Foundations

  • World View
    • Depend on religion, understanding of your place in the world
  • Native Americans
    • Smallest world view issue
  • Africans
    • Complex worldview issues
  • Europeans 
    • Biggest world view issues; set mostly by christianity
  • Great chain of being
    • Ranked place in the world
  • Conversion by the sword
    • Forced conversion of native peoples by any means necessary the belief that they were serving the indigenous people 
    • Confused view of native americans
      • Men hunting vs european leisure hunting activity
      • Lack of written language, lack of history
      • Clothes
      • Native american lineage traced through women
  • Slavery in Rome
    • ⅕ people in roman empire was slave; anyone was eligible to be slave in terms of background
      • Typically two jobs
        • Legions (fighting)
        • Plantation type job
  • 600’s - 1400’s
    • Arab culture heavily used slaves for thousands of years
    • Emergence of Muhhamad in Arabia and Islam dictated that muslims cannot enslave other muslims
    • Decided not to enslave mongols to east or europeans to west
    • Stopped spreading islam in sub sahara africa to continue supply of slaves
  • Islamic slavery nearly controlled slavery for 800 years
  • African slave trade routes 700-1500
  • Ghana, Mali, song high? Empire and another country will produce roughly 70% of islam slaves
  • Genghis Khan repairing and reinforcing of silk roads
    • Protection of roads from robbers from bounties 
    • Kubla Khan captured Marco Polo 
    • Marco Polo being treated as a guest
    • Marco Polo brings back silk to Western countries
  • Portugal enarmored with Silk
    • They wanted to get to China, and trade
    • Built forts along African coast to have monopoly of trade route
  • Portuguese Caravel
    • Prince Henry starts Maritime Academy
      • Trains sailors, teach navigation
      • Learned from Arab ships to improve their own 
      • Studied weather patterns of Atlantic
      • Created Caravel
        • Square sails - speed
        • Triangle sails - mobility
        • Keels - 
    • Bosco de gamma seeing Brazil based off of using wind pattern cycle of Atlantic
      • Gives them precedent for colonizing Brazil
  • Portuguese begin trading for slaves bringing 10,000 slaves a year
  • Spain will takeover the trade and bring 20,000 slaves a year
  • England will takeover and bring 60,000 a year
  • Slaves on sugar plantation