How Did The Impact Of The Byzantine Empire Have On American Culture

All throughout the world and throughout history, goods and ideas have been spread due to cultural diffusion, trade, and travel. During their Golden Ages, Greece and Rome were very prosperous in the areas of writing, art, architecture, and their law systems. Due to the preservation of their cultures by the Byzantine Empire, the law systems started by the Greeks and the Romans have impacted the world greatly. During the Atlantic Slave Trade, Europeans would capture and enslave Africans, forcing them to complete manual labor in the Americas. In trading these slaves to the Americas, the Europeans only cared about receiving their fair share of goods in return.

After the downfall of the Greek and Roman Empires, the Byzantine Empire was able to preserve and keep the knowledge of the two
The European’s saw the Africans as something so vile and so putrid that they decided to punish them. After capturing some of these Africans and enslaving them, the Europeans sent them over to the Americas and forced them to complete manual labor. On the way to the Americas, the Africans often died in the process of trying to become immune to European diseases; the Europeans would force these diseases onto them in order to make the rest of the population immune. On the way to and in America, the slaves were harshly beaten and were wrongly treated for the reason that they looked differently than the Europeans did. Once in America, the slaves were able to farm new types of crops, causing a greater demand for these foods and resources from Europe. As a result of trading with the Americas, Europe was now thriving with new foods and new types of animals. Since so many Africans were brought to and sold as slaves in the Americas, the American population had increased by 9.5 million people. This caused there to be more diversity within the Americas, setting the world up for how it is