The Meeting of Three Worlds: compare and contrast Native American, West African, and European civilizations of the 15th and 16th centuries. How were these civilizations similar to one another? How were they different? 

Native American history is made additionally complex by the diverse geographic and cultural backgrounds of the people involved as one would expect. The arrival of European sea traders at the Guinea coast-lands in the 15^th century clearly marks a new history of all of western Africa. In Europe, the 15^th century is seen as the bridge between the Late Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance, and the early modern period.

           The African societies like those of the Native American and the Europeans were highly dependent on the environmental conditions, Africa very much resembled America in its diversity in cultures and thus established a vast trade network and resource competition (Benjamin 2009). Europeans did not engage with the Africans until the 15^th century African societies from European in terms of familial organization. Unlike the primarily economic motivations for settlement, religion and resource exploitation was the reason for the African, American, and European civilization. In contrast the nature of this contact was often dictated by the colonizers and often overshadowed violence and unleashed forces that altered the lives and cultures of a majority.