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World Contacts Before Columbus
What was the Afro-Eurasian trading world before Columbus?
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Indian Ocean Trading World
The center of pre-Columbian world trade.
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Indian Ocean Trading World
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Indian Ocean Trading World
• A “rich commercial world in which mutual self-interest had largely limited violence and attempts to monopolize trade.” (McKay, et al., 9/e, p. 485)
• Medieval China had the most advanced economy in the world.
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Africa
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Africa – Kingdom of Mali
Mansa Musa (14th c.)
A mosque in Timbuktu
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Africa – Legend of Prester John
Prester John enthroned on a map of East Africa, in an atlas prepared by the Portuguese for Queen Mary of
England, 1558.
Prester John’s kingdom in what is now Ethiopia, map issued in Antwerp, 1570s.
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The Middle East: Ottoman & Persian Empires
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Ottoman Expansion
• 1453 – captured Constantinople = end of Byzantine empire• 1526 – defeat of Hungary• 1529 – siege on Vienna
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• control of luxury trade with the East
• support for Crusades brought land & trading privileges
• Goods:o Eastern luxury goods:
spices, silks, carpetso Balkan slaveso Euro. products: wool,
metal, textiles
Venice and Genoa