Chapter 13: West in Asia Flashcards
Caravel
Arab inspired design of Portuguese ships
- Distinguishing feature was the large triangular sails that help sail monsoon heavy areas
- Would later add square sails for better manuevering
Henry the Navigator
Portuguese sailor responsible for Portugal’s expedition to Asia
- Built an academy of cartographers and future explorers to understand the seas they would be traveling
- Located at Sagres on Cape St. Vincent
- Mainly focused on Africa because it is so big to navigate
Bartholomeu Dias
Would name The Cape of Good Hope
- Trade at the time however, was focused on getting to Asia and Africa wasn’t focused on too much
Vasco de Gama
Defender and spreader of Catholicism
- “Sea-going soldiers”
- First European to make it to Calicut
- De Gama would use his fleet along the coast of Africa to find the best route to Asia
- Would land in Calicut and take spices profiting over 3,000% back to Lisbon
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese in origin, would sail for Spain instead
- (1480-1521)
- Would be the first to circumnavigate the Earth (took 3 years voyage)
- HMS Victoria
- Straits in South America are named after him
- Would die in the Philippines at the local’s request to attack their enemies with Magellan’s ships
Affonso de Alburquerque
Viceroy of the Indies
- Chief architect of the Portuguese commercial empire in Asia
- Focused on taking Malacca because it was an important choke point for trade and movement
- He as well as Portuguese traders would kill many Hindus and Buddhists giving them a bad reputation
Society of Jesus
(Jesuits)
- Formed by Ignatius Loyola, this society was focused on:
- Reaffirming and teaching the Roman Catholic faith
- Focus was on Asia because of its huge population
- Asians tolerated Jesuits because they were generally more cleaner and smarter than most Europeans who visited
Francis Xavier
Jesuit
- Very successful Jesuit who would spend most of his time in Japan
- Preached, taught, and disputed with Buddhist monks
- Died off the coast of China in an effort to spread Christianity to China
Matteo Ricci
Christian missionary who would spread Christianity to China
- Blended with the respective society and dressed as a Confucian scholar
- Was able to learn Chinese quickly and use this to his advantage
- Chinese were impressed by Ricci
Jan Pieterzoon Coen
Dutch governor-general
- Responsible for the Dutch’s success in the East Indies
- Fixed the naval and admin capital of the Dutch East Indies
- Set up a trading post in Jakarta
- Militarized fort
Will Adams
- English ship master of the East Indies
- First Englishman who goes to Japan
- Gets captured in Japan and lives the rest of his life there
- Inspires English voyagers to travel to Japan
- Tokugawa Ieyasu is rising to power at the time
VOC (Dutch East India Co.)
Monopoly that gave the Dutch ultimate control of the East Indies
- Loose oversight from back home
- Joint stock trading company
- The government gave a monopoly of all trade with the East
- Far more effective than the Portuguese’s monopoly
Reverse
Arab inspired design of Portuguese ships
- Distinguishing feature was the large triangular sails that help sail monsoon heavy areas
- Would later add square sails for better manuevering
Caravel
Reverse
Portuguese sailor responsible for Portugal’s expedition to Asia
- Built an academy of cartographers and future explorers to understand the seas they would be traveling
- Located at Sagres on Cape St. Vincent
- Mainly focused on Africa because it is so big to navigate
Henry the Navigator
Reverse
Would name The Cape of Good Hope
- Trade at the time however, was focused on getting to Asia and Africa wasn’t focused on too much
Bartholomeu Dias
