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The Atlantic World, 1492- 1830
Atlantic World history is the history of the four continents around the Atlantic Ocean, focusing on the societies that were connected by European imperialism after 1492. When the Portuguese passed Cape Bojador in 1434, they opened European contact with sub-Saharan Africa and Columbus’s voyages brought Europeans into contact with the Americas. These two developments were both necessary for the forced migration of Africans to the Americas, the Atlantic Slave Trade. But the transformation of the societies that bordered the Atlantic Ocean was more extensive than this and was crucially important to the creation of the modern world.