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Chapter 6: Breakdown
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Political

● The Europeans wanted to access the economically rich region of India without crossing
through the middle east
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The Europeans were late to this want of Asian
merchandise because of the Black death
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● Portugal tried to obtain control of key locations “within the Indian Ocean world —
Mombasa in East Africa, Hormuz, Persian Gulf, Goa on the west coast of India, Malacca
in Southeast Asia, and Macao on the south coast of China”
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This gave them close to access to the Indian ocean
● Trading Post empire a Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade through
military power rather than on control of peoples or territories
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It was also overextended
● The Spanish wanted to take over the Philippines because of its proximity to China and
the spice islands
● Europeans were met with open arms by the Japanese
● The trans-Atlantic slave system caused the death of 1
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5 million
people from Africa

Environment
● By the 1500s fur became a big product for trade This was due to the“Little Ice Age”
because furs provided warmth
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7 million and took 12
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● At one point Japan had many Christian converts that were influenced by Europeans but
after Japan unified, the Shogun banned the practice of Christianity
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Both the British East India Company and the Dutch
East India Company
● The dutch, by force, obtained many small spice-producing islands, this left many
people slaughtered and impoverished
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● Silver made the world go round, most of the silver was found in the Americas
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China became more commercialized, Spain became wealthy but due to the inflation of
silver lost money
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Social
● Women in the Spanish settlements played major roles as ritual specialists, healers, and
midwives were now displaced by male Spanish priests, and the ceremonial
instruments of these women were deliberately defiled and disgraced
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● There was a great demand for forced labor in Europe, the origins of the Atlantic slave
route comes from the Mediterranean,
● The Europeans made sugar and fruit plantations near the Mediterranean, but when the
ottomans took over Constantinople, the slave trade was cut off in the Mediterranean
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Details and Support

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Vasco da Gama: Was an important Portuguese mariner that was one of the first
Europeans to sail by the coast of West Africa, in order to get to the Indian ocean
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Most Africans were put on slave ships and sailed through the
transatlantic slave trade
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Many of
these states were weak and were taken easily
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d the Dutch East India Company The Dutch, by force, obtained many
small spice-producing islands, this left many people slaughtered and impoverished
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The British grew their Indian ocean monopoly through private companies, which
were able to raise money and share risks among a substantial number of merchant
investors
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British were not as brutal
as the dutch, they asked permission from the Mughal authorities
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Important places (top five): what are the most important cities or regions in this period?

Where are they located? Why are they significant? How did they contribute to interaction and
exchange?
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At one
point Japan had many Christian converts that were influenced by Europeans but after
Japan unified, the Shogun banned the practice of Christianity
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Europe: The main countries that were colonizing afro-Asia, by means of trade and
slavery
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But in this chapter, we see how the Europeans are
working to capture the economical potential of Africa and Asia
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And we see the origins of the trans atlantic trade route,
and how it will tie into the next chapter

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