HIS379: The Atlantic World Prof: Andrew Cramer February 5, 2013 Understanding Interactions among Groups It has been said, “To really understand a culture you must first be there.” The Atlantic World is one of those unique worlds which are made up of many different interactions among groups of people. The Atlantic World has been shaping up ever since Christopher Columbus discovered the “New World”. From the Amerindians, to slave trades of Africa, and to the European discovering new worlds, patterns
Religion has been a fundamental component in every colonization known to man since the Garden of Eden. In fact, one is hard pressed to find a culture where the act of utilizing the principle of religion as a cornerstone is not employed. However it was upon the virgin soil of America that Religion made one of its most indelible conquests. Religious conviction played a vital role in all of the continent's fledgling settlements, but particularly in two colonies did religion, unequivocally, have the
In the time of the discovery of the Americas, culture and religion had been playing a massive role in fuelling massive movements that would shape the world as we know it to the present day. This essay will prove that the European colonial powers used culture and religion as a means in which to justify large scale imperial expansion and to exploit the native populations. With the discovery of the Americas across the Atlantic ocean, and the subsequent discovery of the Indigenous peoples
The Atlantic World The Atlantic World was a name for the Americas, Europe and Africa. It was given its name in the beginning of the Age of Exploration in which Europeans set out to the Americas. The name was given because of its position between the Atlantic Ocean. The three areas of the Atlantic World would be the Americas, Africa and Europe. These were the 3 continents. They used the Atlantic Ocean to trade goods and move people. It was their oceanic highway so to speak. The continents
setting their shoes in the land of America; whatever the reasons were for setting sail across the Atlantic, the destined view was common for all, the eye on a greener pasture. Due to the increase of economic, religious, and political pressures knocking down the foundation of England’s stature, England joined the water races of the Atlantic. They were late starters in the expeditions of the New World; however, this did not decrease the settlers’ stubbornness of learning from the prior mistakes the
emigrate. For other colonists, economic opportunity was the sole motivation for setting sail to the New World. The societal values developed by settlers who worshipped the pursuit of the almighty coin would contrast drastically with those in pursuit of freedom to worship the Almighty. A comparative overview of the religious and socio-economic histories of the Chesapeake, New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies shows the evolved societies contrasted culturally as a direct result of diverse local economies
later. Contact with the Americans came a century or more later still. Very slowly at first, but inexorably, these contacts would change the lives of native people. B. First European contacts with American Indians ● Spanish explorers in the new world were on search for gold and wanted to enslave Indians. ● Cortez encountered the Aztec empire of Mexico and Cuba and lost his first fight; but exposed Indians to smallpox which to their win Spanish continued to examinate the natives in order to take
suitable to hold their own independence. The United States then purchased Alaska and imperialized other Pacific islands such as the islands of Samoa and Atlantic island such as Guam. In my opinion American imperialism was proper but not legitimate. In order for the United States to grow as an empire it must secure points of interest such as Atlantic and Pacific Islands, for naval bases and market enterprises. The tactics in which were used towards the citizens of those islands were not legitimate.
the beginning of expansion of European culture throughout the world. The origins of European exploration and colonization began with the intention of finding new trade routes to known civilizations in the east but led to a century of conquest and colonization of whole continents. Western European’s age of exploration was motivated by Spain and Portugal’s obsession with finding spice routes (fate), the desire to expand the Catholic religion for political and religious reasons (faith), and the economic
England on December 16, 1714. Whitefield took voyages to the New World seven times. He called both sides of the Atlantic “home”. He was the most traveled preacher of the gospel up to his time and many felt he was the greatest evangelist of all time. His diligence and sacrifice helped turn two nations back to God. He spent many years ministering in the British Isles and America, speaking to some ten million souls. In the New World, Whitefield preached from Georgia to New England, always raising