Ch. 19An Age of Exploration and Isolation

1400-1800

Section 1Europeans Explore the East

Spices

Caravel

Prince Henry

Bartolomeu Dias

Vasco da Gama

Line of Demarcation

Treaty of Tordesillas

Challenger to Portugal

1400’s

Spices› Most important trade good from the East

Italy Profited the most from trade with the East after the

Crusades

Motives behind European

exploration

Caravel

Could sail effectively against the wind› Portugal

Leader in developing and applying sailing innovations

Prince Henry

“The Navigator”› Portuguese leader in overseas exploration

Founded a navigation school

Portuguese sailors

Bartolomeu Dias› Captained the first ship to sail around the

tip of Africa AKA: Cape of Good Hope

Portuguese sailors

Vasco da Gama› Gained Portugal a sea route between

Portugal and India

Spain and Portugal

Both made exploration claims› Line of Demarcation

Established a boundary between new land each could claim

› Treaty of Tordesillas Purpose

Decrease conflict over claiming of new lands

Challenger to Portugal

Netherlands(Dutch)› Dominated Indian Ocean trade by 1700

Section 2China Limits European Contacts

Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

Ruled China at the end of the Mongol rule› Hongwu

Son of peasants Founded the Ming Dynasty

› Yonglo Attempted to expand China’s tribute system

Sponsored voyages of exploration

Ming Dynasty

Yonglo› Moved the Chinese capital to Beijing

Built the Forbidden City

Ming Dynasty

Zheng He› Led all seven exploration voyages

Ming Dynasty

Foreign trade› Only conducted by the government

Qing Dynasty

Founded in the mid 1600’s by the Manchus

Rulers› Kangxi

Reduced government spending Lowered taxes

Supported intellectuals by offering government positions

› Qian-long

Quig Dynasty

Dutch› Accepted Chinese restictions

Paid tribute to the emporer Gifts “kowtow” ritual

Quig Dynasty

Manchus› Korea

A vassal state

Japan Returns to IsolationSection 3

Daimyo

Oda Nobunaga

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu cont….

Christian Missionaries

Japan

What are some of the things that improved the quality of life in China and Japan during the 1600s and 1700s?

China Japan

Daimyo

lords in a new kind of Japanese feudalism

Oda Nobunaga

rule ended the "warring states" period did not succeed in unifying Japan

Tokugawa Ieyasu

1600› Finally unified Japan

Used the "alternate attendance policy" to control the daimyo 

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Founded the Tokugawa Shogunate› Military government

Christian Missionaries in Japan

Successful› Upset Tokugawa Ieyasu

Feared religious uprising

Japan

Japan remained closed to Europeans for more than 200 years.

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