A non-European empire also engaged in colonial cartography
Evidence
Jacob Streider concluded: “The Italian city states developed a colonial system in the Mediterranean, a system which was a precursor and a prototype for Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and even for Holland in the seventeenth.” (Cited by Oliver C. Cox, The Foundations of Capitalism, Philosophical Library, New York, 1959, p. 85 n. 36.) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1841 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Italian colonial systems in the Mediterranean foreshadowed Iberian and Dutch empires (similarity 0.89)
- Italian city-states pioneered colonial methods later copied by Iberian and Dutch empires (similarity 0.87)
- Italian city states pioneered the colonial model later adopted by Spain, Portugal, and Holland (similarity 0.87)
- European colonialism freed capital accumulation from Europe’s material limits (similarity 0.81)
- Italian capitalist networks enabled the Portuguese Empire and its slave trade (similarity 0.80)
- European economic control over Muslim states preceded and enabled direct colonization (similarity 0.79)
- Columbus’s success depended on three centuries of Genoese capitalist infrastructure, not personal qualities (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Mediterranean slavery foreshadowed Atlantic colonial slavery (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination
#exemplifies(0.85) - Italian colonial systems in the Mediterranean foreshadowed Iberian and Dutch empires
#expands(0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1841