The first age of European expansion was spearheaded by the
states of southern Europe, Portugal, and Spain, and resulted in bringing the
Americas into contact with the rest of the world. Later, the states of Northern
Europe (England, the Dutch Republic, and France) entered into competition with them
for control of overseas territories. Choose three of the authors listed
below, and analyze in depth how their texts illustrate essential features of
these momentous historical events, features that include: the encounter between
cultures; the Columbian Exchange of crops, animals and diseases; the Atlantic
slave trade; the violence of conquest…
Bartholomeo
de Las Casas
Montaigne
Olaudah
Equiano
Required guidelines to follow in your response
Please provide and discuss at least
two specific examples from their
texts or from relevant course readings to support your analysis of each
of the authors you choose to focus on (direct quotes are not necessary, but you
must comment on specific examples or passages from the readings as support)
Be sure that your discussion of the
textual examples is clearly and consistently relevant to the essay prompt. Random and irrelevant
points about the examples you choose will not earn you points.
I will be providing the sources to work with. One document is uploaded and has all the readings. I will upload them in the document upload section. Use in-text citations by providing author-name and page number on the given document. Write about one author at a time. Cover each author in about 500 words. Add an introduction and conclusion binding the entire essay together.