Trade and Conflict Flashcards
Europeans established trading posts where?
Asia
What kind of trading
commercial trading/established footholds in the region
what was the goal of the portuguese
to control trade routes, not to establish colonies
how many trading posts did the portuguese have by the mid 1500s
more than 50 trading poste
what did the portuguese demand at the trading ports
demanded that merchant ships buy safe conduct passes
what happened by the late 1500s
the portuguese control of the Indian Ocean trade declined
british trading ports?
Bombay, Madras, Calcutta
Dutch Trading Posts
Cape of Good Hope, Colombo, Java
What were joint stock companies
funded by private merchants, wanted to make money, very profitable
The Philippines
no central government, no organized resistance, spread christianity, trading center
Manila Galleons*
chinese merchants would trade silk and other luxury goods to the Spanish in Manila
Spanish would send galleons to their colony in Peru
that silver would be paid to the Chinese and enter the Chinese economy in the Ming Dynasty
The Dutch In Indonesia
The Dutch were not interested in spreading religion
control the spice trade in the region
Russian Expansion
russian forces began to take over central asian khanates left over by the mingols
access to what river allowed russia to profit from trade with India and the Ottomans
volga river
what did explorers and merchants look for in siberia
furs
