Definitions of the Atlantic

J.H. Elliott believes that the history of the new world needs to be connected to the old. New settlements took ideas from the old and improved upon them or took them as they were. Individuals also used the "frontier conditions" to stimulate new inventions and technology in order to survive their new environment. Elliott also argued that with the acquisition of new lands required that the empire to plant settlers in those lands.
    Alison Games is a critic of thoughts on the Atlantic world. She believes that the history of the Atlantic world is one of the elite, or the very prosperous group of people. She believes that the world needs to move away from a history of national traditions, or the too nationalistic viewpoint. The history world needs to realize that the Atlantic world is only a piece of the world history pie and that historians need a more comparative methodology to study those pieces.
    Peter Coclanis interacted with other circuits around the world. Those interactions would be what would lead to the successful colonization of the new world. The African salve trade was not just profitable in the Americas but the interaction between that trade and the textile trade of Asia would lead to success for bother part of the world. Coclanis also believes that the financial circuit was not the only area of interaction. Those other exchanges would be biological, technological, scientific and philosophical-religious.
    I would agree more with the Coclanis argument. The idea that every aspect of the world interacted and was dependent on the other is much like how our world works now. Biological circuits are evident with the intermarriage of various cultures to produce new ones. The introductions of various animals and plants in Europe and vice versa is also evident. Probably the biggest area of interaction would be the philosophical-religious circuit. The establish of religious forts in the areas of Mexico and the American southwest lead to further settlement and establishment of permanent governments like the viceroyalty of New Spain that was established in Mexico.