In 1492, Christopher Columbus, supported by the Spanish government, undertook a voyage to find a new route to Asia and inadvertently encountered “new” lands in the Americas full of long established communities and cultures. Other European countries quickly followed suit and began to explore and invade the New World.
The Catholic Church suppressed many ideas of the Scientific Revolution and they even excommunicated Galileo for saying that the earth revolved around the sun
Royal absolutism is not an essential element of the English political tradition. However, limits to the power of the king, differing levels of representation, and protection of certain rights have been found in English political tradition.
The white people in Louisiana were not fond of the fact that the African Americans can gain equal rights at all. They felt threatened in multiple ways but such a decision. Some of the things that scared the white people of Louisiana was that they will suffer economically, because there will be no more slaves, but only people that they will have to pay to work on their farms. Also, they feared that the African Americans might try and take their revenge on them because of the torture they experienced while being slaves. Other thing was that they were looking at the African Americans as lesser and primitive people, so they did not fancied the fact that the cultures and the people will start to mix with each other.
