HY 200 Atlantic World

This course examines the interconnected histories of four continents, Europe, Africa, North America, and South America, to help us better understand the new Atlantic world created as a consequence of the Columbian encounter in 1492. The course traces the creation of this world from the first European forays into the Atlantic and along the coast of Africa in the fifteenth century to the great Atlantic revolutions and the first wars for colonial independence and the abolition of slavery.

Topics include exploration, contact, and adaptation; the destruction and reconfiguration of indigenous societies; the slave trade and labor migrations of Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans; trade and commodities; the creation and growth of new states; and the spread of abolitionism, republicanism, and nationalism.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

Not crosslisted.

Prerequisite

No prerequisite.

Corequisite

No corequisite.