What major change were reshaping the African and European worlds in
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
In West African was kinship group knit societies together which was
similar to the Native American. “The enslaved Africans to endure the breakup of
nuclear families by sale” ” Boyer page18”. Since children was a part of slavery
they let men married many wives in order to have many slave. Moreover, African is rain forest which means
most of people are farmer. So, they took
some farmers to made clothing and jewelry instead of farming. African people
“believed that another world lay beyond the one they perceived” ” Boyer
page18”. Also, they considered using cast iron or ivory in their ceremonies as
honoring spirits. They have special event which they dance with ritual masks.
European
culture and society has influenced by Renaissance which rebirth of classical
Greek and roman culture. European’s status was classified into gender, wealth,
inherited position and political which affected to everyone. It noticed in that time there 70-80 percent
of Europeans were peasant which they couldn’t afford basic needs. It led to
joint-stock company which a good step by the sixteenth century. Furthermore, in
sixteenth and seventeen every member in the family has specific role. Father deal with supreme authority and wife’s
job was to take care of children and assist her husband. Children was labor at
that time. Europe has many religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
African and European worlds had many changes which helped to reshape both of
them.
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