lilfox11 發表於 2015-9-8 01:41 AM
不一樣.......
非州開始,並不是主要“殖民地“
我上面提到了,是為了當成前往印度的中轉站
就同我在12樓的描述,
歐洲人前往非洲一開始就是「為了金礦」,並不是為了殖民地或是亞洲航路。
來看看Western Civilization 17th 在p.358對這個現象的描述:
"The European trade in Africa gold was not new.
It had been going on for centuries, facilitated by Muslim middlemen whose caravans brought it from the Niger River ... In the 13 century Catalan and Genoese meachants established trading colonies to expedite this process..."
"...during 1340s... Gold therefore represented an obvious alternative currency for large transactions, and in the thirteenth century some European rulers began minting gold coins. But European itself had few natural gold reserves. To maintain and expand these gold coinages, new and large supplies of gold were needed. The most obvious source was Africa."