Theme 1

Overview

Europe- Rural

Some large cities- Rome, London, Paris

Africa-  Rural

Oldest and largest cities - Cairo, Lagos, Timbuktu

Americas- One large city- Tenochtitlan(mexico City)

Europe-  Male dominated

Gov. was absollute monarchies

Patriarchal societies

Africa -  Matrilineal (maternal)

Some kingdoms - Mali Songhai

Americas -  Maternal except for Aztecs and Incas

Council of elders (male Chief but did not run society)

Europe -  Land was something own

Few own land, basis of wealth

Africa \

Communal land, Can be used but not abused

America /

Europe - Monotheistic, many christians, some Jewish, few Muslim

Africa - Ancestor worship

20% muslim

America - Polytheistic with nature

Europe - Established christian hegemony

Crusades (1096-1291)

America - Christianized from the new world

Glory

Gold

Monarchs had the wealth and profit motivation

Europeans were desperate for Glory

Africa - Gold and Black gold

America - Gold and silver

Africa to Europe = Slaves, raw material

America to europe = raw materials and rum

Europe to America = finished goods and diseases

Europe to Africa = guns and finished goods

Not columbus

Treaty of Tortesillas - Divided between spain and portgal

Saint Brendan's voayge to america around 550 BC

From england (40% unemployment in europe)

Indentured servitude - signed onto ships and worked for 7 years to pay off trip

7 years

Master rights - Stuff penaltis to:

Runnaways

Theft and destruction of Property

Pregnancy

Servants righrts - Room and board

Sundays off- but had to go to church

Protection form (most) abuse

Captured by rival tribes and traded at coasts

Life expectancy less thatn 5 years

over 10 million were "delivered" to America