the world trade part 1
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PowerPoint Assignment 1
The World in 1492
By
Kevin Schwartz
The Grand Tour: Europe
• There were many colonies with varying degrees of prosperity and wealth.
• All across Europe, new leaders were emerging and attempting to explore and conquer uncharted regions of the Earth.
The Grand Tour: Turkey to Africa • Turks and other Islamic
people controlled a vast area of land between Spain and North Africa.
• Christianity saw dwindling numbers to Islamic religion but caught a break when Columbus turned over the Americas to the Spanish.
• Spain, with the largest population of Jews in all of Europe, expelled any Jews unwilling to accept Baptism.
The Grand Tour: South Asia
• Muslims dominated most of India during this period.
• India’s port Malacca was perhaps the greatest in the world with goods from the West and East.
• Islam was spread to many different ports and islands through Malacca.
• The main competition between Portugal and Spain was the spread of their chosen religion.
The Grand Tour: China and Japan • Tome Pires became
Portugal’s first Ambassador to China.
• Zheng he was supposedly a great explorer but under further investigation, it was found that he wasted vast amounts of money, grain, and lives of the voyagers with hardly any benefit to the state.
• China’s Confucian bureaucrats made sure that naval exploration would not continue.
The Grand Tour: The Western Hemisphere
• The Aztecs remained bound to their land and had little interest in naval exploration.
• Their leader, Ahuitzotl, relied on economic pressure and terror to keep things running smoothly.
• The disunity of the Aztec tribes enabled them to resist the Spanish until 1700.
• The Putum were heavily engaged in trade.
• The Incas had a superb transport system in which information and goods could be moved at an extremely fast rate.
The Staff of Life • Each population
depended on a different resource based on the way in which its society developed.
• Western Eurasia depended on wheat.
• Eastern Eurasia depended on rice.
• Americas depended on com.
• Of these three commodities, com requires the least amount of time and effort.
• This kept jobs for women, where as they were displaced in wheat and rice jobs because of the advancement of heavy machinery requiring strenuous manual labor.
The Great Traditions
• There were 4 major forms of civilization that thrived in Eurasia.
• All had major cities, advanced technology, writing, metal implements, and elaborate bureaucratic structures.
• Outsiders continued to push on these stable populations but learned local customs and were just absorbed into the culture.
The European Challenge
• Due to the fact that the societies in Eurasia were in contact with each other, they could make technological advances much faster than a population that was isolated.
• Europe focused much of their resources and energy into building faster and more powerful ships for exploration and warfare.
• Europeans had exploration and expansion at the top of their list.
• They began to set up forts, trading posts, and churches in Africa.
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