unit 4 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Magnetic compass, astrolabe, lanteen sail, astronomical charts
new maritime tech
Caravel (small portuguese), Portuguese carrack, Flyut (dutch trade)
European innovations
increasing desire for Asian and south east asian spices (peper) led to….
state sponsored explanation
Prince henery the navigator sponsered the 1st european attempt to find an all water route to Indian ocean, small trading ports along the coast of Africa
Portugal
tech (compass, astrolabe, caravel, carrack), economics (trans-sarahan gold/spices), religion (spread Christianity) led to…
motivation for portgual expansion
political rivalry, envy,desire for wealth, alt routes to Asia
causes for exploration
Disease in America (malaria, measles, small pox), plants and food (european: wheat, grapes, olives. New world: maize, potatoes) Corces labor, animals (pigs, sheep, cattle)
Effects of Colombian exchange
united under shogun, thought European merchants converting japanese would lead to a culutral fracture
Tokugawa Japan (Asian resistance)
Zheng he wanted to create a situition where most maritime trade in Indian Ocean was processed through the chinese state, isolated themselves
Ming China (Asian resistance)
trading partner with Portuguse, became rich, military expanded so they could stop Britan from colonizing them
assante empire (expansion of African states)
How did the spanish use the Inca Mit’a system?
subjects had to provide labor for state projects for a certain number of years like for spanish silver mining
Indigenous people were forced to provide labor for the spanish in exhange for food and protection (like feudalism)
Encomienda system
new edicts were passed to increase taxtion so the french nobility led peasents in spontaneous rebellions known as….
Fronde (france)
Africa, allied with the dutch and congo in order to fight portugese armies
Queen ana Nzinga’s resistance
they were forced into coerced labor by spainards and reblled aganist the spanish
Pueblo revolt
carribean and brazil, freed slaves would run away and join these…
maroon societies
Tolerant, jews were requiered to pay a tax that non muslims had to pay
responses to ethnic diversity OTTOMAN JEWS
not tolerant, Reconquista reestablished Christianity, Jews were seen as a threat to Christianity so Spain expelled all jews, Jews fled to Portugal for refuge but instead were expelled.
Responses to ethnic diversity SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
not tolerant, division between ethnic manchu and han, han had to wear a certain hairstyle
Qing dynasty
