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The Beginnings of Our Global
Age: Europe, Africa, and Asia
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Why Now?
• 1200-1300s, overland trade; Black Death and breakup of Mongol empire disrupts that
• 1400s Arab and Italian merchants control trade between Asia and Europe
• Others want in on that
The Silk Road Overland Routes
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Portugal Sails East • Prince Henry
• 1415 Portugal takes Ceuta
• Map the African Coast; convert the Africans, looking for gold and an easier route to Asia
• 1460 Henry dies; 1488 Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope; 1497 da Gama gets to Calicut
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Columbus Sails West
• Ferdinand and Isabella
• Cruises the Caribbean
• 1493 Line of Demarcation
• 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas
• 1519-1522 Magellan circumnavigates the globe
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The Slave Trade
• Portugal builds forts
and trading posts
along the coast
• Guns, gold, ivory,
slaves
• Plantation economy
• African rulers and
merchants supply the
slaves
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European Expansion
• 1652 Dutch arrive in Cape Town
• Farmers called Boers evict, kill, or enslave the people who live there
• Mid 1600s British and French reach Senegal
• Search for the source of the Nile furthers exploration of Africa
Jan van Riebeeck
landed in 1652 at the
Cape of Good Hope
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Europe in South and SE Asia
• Portuguese meet the Mughals in India
• Build outposts in southern India for resupply and repair
• 1510 take Goa; make it a military and commercial base
• 1511 take Malacca; massacre Muslims
Afonso de Albuquerque
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The Dutch and the Spanish
• Dutch are the first challengers to the Portuguese
• 1602 Dutch East India Company
• 1641 capture Malacca; open trade with China
• Spain seizes the Philippines; converts and trade
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The English in India
• Mughals control India for two centuries
• Europeans build forts, warehouses
• Hindu/Muslim conflict; Civil War
• 1700s British and French fight it out
• British East India Company and its army drives out the French
The East India Company Negotiates
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Encounters in East Asia
• 1514 Portuguese arrive in China
• Ming think they’re barbarians; limit trade
• Eventually set up a trading post at Macao
• Ming allow Dutch, English, others to trade at Canton
• Missionaries follow
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The Manchu Conquest
• 1602 rebellions against the Ming
• 1644 The Manchus take Beijing; found the Qing Dynasty
• China’s borders expand, economy improves, food surpluses, population growth
• 1793 refuse trade with England
Inauguration Portrait of Qianlong
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Korea Chooses Isolation
• 1592 and 1597 Japan
invades Korea
• Famine, disease,
population decrease
• 1636 the Manchus
invade; Korea
becomes tributary
state of the Qing
• Korea goes
isolationist
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Japan
• 1543 Portuguese reach Japan; Spanish, Dutch, English follow
• Daimyo welcome their weapons
• Helps Tokugawa shoguns centralize power, impose order
• 1638 expelled Europeans and closed their borders
Priest Francis Xavier