Prompt:
During the late 15th century and 16th century European mariners were establishing new trading relationships with the various regions that were newly discovered. Trading post empires provided the most prominent spaces for cross-cultural interactions between Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Trading posts also limited European intrusion into Africa and Asia in contrast to European settlement empires in the Americas. What characterized the relations between, for example, the Portuguese and the inhabitants of the Indian Ocean basin? Why were the Europeans confined to such posts? What were the reasons for the two kinds of interaction with the local peoples during this period- the one towards the Americas and the one towards Africa and Asia?
Sources:
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/spanish-and-portuguese-exploration-in-the-americas/
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/precontact-and-early-colonial-era/old-and-new-worlds-collide/a/motivations-for-conquest-of-the-new-world
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/first-encounters-americas
https://guides.loc.gov/colonial-america-business-research/trade-mercantilism
https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-detail?cmsuuid=cf6a17a7-128f-4ba0-a6a3-90d009afe660
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/asia-and-africa
9-10 pages long, times new roman, double spaced
