Unit 1:: Old Worlds in Transition: America, Africa, and Europe before 1600
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844520.book.part.001

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Abstract

While most of us learned grade school lessons about Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the “New World” in 1492, what he and fellow adventurers actually accomplished was the forging of ties between three much older worlds in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Prior to this contact there existed civilizations and cultural traditions in the Americas, Africa, and Europe that stretched back centuries. What changed is that they became more fully aware of one another.

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