chapter 6 questions Flashcards
What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce?
The desire for tropical spices silk cottons and gemstones getting these items and being involved in trade would help Europe recover from black death
Why was Europe just beginning to participate in global commerce during the sixteenth century?
They just recently had recovered from the black death The disease wiped out many people across Europe infecting many They only were beginning to learn how to tax subjects This is why they were just beginning to join global commerce
Using the Map on page 251, where were Dutch-controlled territories concentrated? Where were Portuguese territories concentrated?
The Dutch controlled territories were concentrated Sumatra as well as Java and Galle The Portuguese territories were concentrated in East Africa also in a small part of West Africa
To what extent did the Portuguese realize their goals in the Indian Ocean?
They want to become a trading post empire and they partially succeeded in doing so They took down key locations of commerce and set up fortified bases They aim to control commerce rather than controlling people and wanted to monopolize the spice trade They only succeeded in controlling half of the spice trade
Describe the factors that led to Portugal’s decline as a power in the Indian Ocean trade network. [pages 252-253]
They got involved in carrying services They ended up selling their ships because they couldn’t sell their goods They were outnumbered by Asian traders and escaped to Asian or African ports and blended into that culture
How did the goals and actions of the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and British in Asia differ?
Portugal established military bases creating a trading post Empire focusing on trade and not people The Spanish controlled their people with religion Catholic they gained control of Philippines The Dutch took over the spice trade and used private companies they conquered Indonesia The British also had private company in the established in India and set up trading places
To what extent did the British and Dutch trading companies change the societies they encountered in Asia?
They both took the land by attacking The Dutchess Roy crops of the conqueror land and began to produce spice crops with slave labor The British established trading posts and replaced the Portuguese on the Gulf
In what ways did Asian political authority and economic activity persist in the face of European intrusion?
Asian political authority and economic activity persisted in the face of European intrusion because they had military technology shipbuilding skills geographic knowledge and commerce which helped against the Europeans invading the Europeans have little influence in Asia and Europeans didn’t have much power They banned Christianity when they saw European as threats
What roles did the samurai and the daimyo play during the Tokugawa shogunate? Describe the interactions between Japan and European traders in this era.
The samurai protect the Lord’s called dimeo the samurai also helped protect the Shogun from attackers Europe and Japan were not able to make trades because Europeans were deemed as a threat They kicked out Christians and cut off all trade with Europeans
Describe the main features and effects of the global trade of silver in this era.
It began global trade and silver wasn’t high demand or most of the silver ended up in China because the silver tax they made for traders Silver became a high end man currency and the Spanish silver coins were used to cross many companies
How were the effects of the silver trade different for Japan and Spain?
They were the destination for Latin America’s silver which caused inflation The Spanish economy had monopolies regulations preferring leisure to enterprise cause and unproductive way of spending and eventually causing Spain to lose power In Japan they had a market-based economy and having less kids caused less crisis and Japan flourished with its commercialized economy
Describe the impact of the fur trade on North American native societies
They were able to trade first they acquire for European goods like blankets guns metal tools and rum The native people were able to have a trading relationship with Europe They were not forced to labor anymore because of fur trade The rum caused them to get addicted causing violence which caused the downfall of the native societies
What differences can you identify between the spice, silver and fur trades?
The differences between the spice silver and fur trades because silver trade used slaves enforce labor The fur trade had a trading relationship with the natives trading European goods for exotic furs. The spice trade left economy suffering in the spice islands
What was distinctive about the Atlantic slave trade as compared to other systems of forced labor? What did it share with other patterns of slave owning and slave trading?
It was distinctive compared to other force labor systems because the slaves were abused and treated horribly in many ways like forced capture beating branding and imprisonment This was very brutal also slaves had to be transferred by boats The system was very large and the center of economy It shared patterns with the trans Sahara slave trade because many slaves were sold against their will in an imprisoned and taken far away from
What explains the rise of the Atlantic slave trade?
The Rise of the Atlantic slave trade is that when the Ottoman Empire fell they had no more Slavic slaves Plantations emerged in America for sugar tobacco and cotton which caused demand for slaves in America Africa became the primary source for slaves and they sent them to him the Americas to
