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Malacca

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  • Ferdinand Magellan and Portuguese conquest

* Malayan spice port

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Spice Islands (Molaccas)

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Islands, Southeast Asia, present day Indonesia

•source of (majority) spice trade

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Tumasik (Temasek) (Singapore)

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Early city in modern Singapore

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Zheng He

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Chinese Muslim admiral who led the Chinese expeditions 1400s

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Ming Dynasty Yongle

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  • forbidden city
  • trade with Europeans
  • old Chinese ways : civil service, Neo Confucianism
  • expanded boarders
  • change due to western contact
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Chinese junker

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Type of ship, high stern/sails made of panels

Sturdy/large

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Dhow

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Arab vessel

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Crusades

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Holy wars, Christian army campaign, purpose: take back the Holy Land and other eastern territories

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Marco Polo

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Venetian merchant/ adventurer, 24 year journey into Central Asia. 1st to document geography, gov and religions of regions

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Marco Polo / Kublai Khan

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Met Kublai Khan, invited to royal court, became his ambassador

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Songhai

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10 centuries
•absolute monarchy, system of admin
•ethnic group, controlled export industry,
•Gao=admin city
•Mali captured Gao, Songhai – vassal state

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Timbuktu

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  • center of trade

* Mansa Musa – center of religion/edu

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Gao

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Admin city of Songhai

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Sonni Ali

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Captures Timbuktu, founded Songhai empire

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Askia Muhammed

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Askia the Great
Emperor of Songhai in 1442-1538
Expands Songhai empire to largest country in West Africa

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“God, glory, gold”

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Primary motives for European expansion overseas

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portugal, encouraged overseas voyages

Motives: new trade routes, possible attract route for Moors, advances in ship building /navigational aid

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Moctezuma II (Montezuma)

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Last Aztec emperor b4 Spanish

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Bartolomeu Dias

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  • Portuguese
  • Cape of Good Hope, open sea route to India
  • not much is known besides tht
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Vasco da Gama

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  • Portuguese

* Calicut, India. Opened major trade route for spice trade and gems

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Cape of good hope

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  • southern tip of Africa

* Bartolomeu Dias

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Calicut

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  • important Indian trading center

* Vasco da Gama

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Astrolabe

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  • used by seafarers/ astronomers

* determined the position of celestial bodies

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Compass

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Allowed seafarers to determine direction, better than North Star in cloudy conditions
•created by Chinese

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Admiral Afonso de Alburquerque
* Portuguese noble * governor in India * founder of Portuguese imperial system
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Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain
Sponsored Columbus' expedition
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Granada
One of the 5 provinces of Spain (1400s) | Languages & gov differed among provinces
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Christopher Columbus
* Italian, explored for Spain * 1492 Caribbean * mass genocide
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Ferdinand Magellan
* Portuguese, explored for Spain | * 1st to circumnavigate globe
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Philippines
* strategic location, Western colonization | * 1st European = Magellan
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East India Companies
Dutch East India Company: Netherlands focused on Dutch East Indies (region of Asia = Indonesia) British East India Company: England (Queen Elisabeth I), traded with wealthy Asian kingdoms, responsible for British Indian conquest
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Pope Alexander VI
Established the Line of Demarcation | Portuguese dissatisfaction led to the Treaty of Tordesillas
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Amerigo Vespucci
Whom America is named Didn't discover new world Florentine merchant / navigator 1500s
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John Cabot
- Italian - discovered North America - led to British colonies
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Pedro Cabral
- Portuguese navigator | - discovered Brazil
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Tenochtitlan
Aztec capital Lake Texcoco, present day Mexico City Very urban, largest pop in Mesoamerica
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Quetzalcoatl
Feathered serpent god, Mayan
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Measles / smallpox
Pathogens, 1600s America Brought by explorers Helped European govs dominate indigenous
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Syphilis
Chronic, degenerative, sexually transmitted disease
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Venereal disease
STDs
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Jesuits
- society of Jesus | - suppressed and expelled a lot
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Asante
Asante Empire: dominant center of West African trade Europe | -gold, ivory, guns, slaves
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Bartolome de las casas
1st crusader advocate for human rights in New World
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Juana Ines de la Cruz
Greatest Spanish poet/ writer | Feminist in a patriarchal time
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La Malinche
Indigenous woman - served as Hernando Cortes's indispensable interpreter, negotiator, navigator, and mistress - part in fall of Aztec, Spanish conquest, Mestizo
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Zacatecas
Largest silver deposit found in New World
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Hacienda
Large agricultural estate in Latin America, peasants = labor
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Bullion
Gold bars, silver bars, other bars of precious metal
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Maize
Corn | Americas - Europeans
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Boers / Afrikaners
Dutch colonists in South Africa
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Cape Town
South African port city | SW coast
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Chattel
Slavery of Nee World, slaves = private property / beasts of burden
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Kongo
Kongo empire - most powerful - 1st Catholicized sub-Saharan African state
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Captain James Cook
1700s 3 voyages to Pacific Detailed surveys, added to European knowledge of region
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Benin
Western Africa, north narrow strip, southern coastline along Atlantic Ocean
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Batik
Creative design on fabrics, found in Indonesian & Southeast Asian Art
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Java
``` Southeast Asian island Near Indonesia (spice islands) ```
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Mercator Projection
Gerardus Mercator | -rendered latitude / longitude with straight lines, accurate ratio between 2 , guide ships w/o readjusting compass
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Convoy system
Provided armed escort vessels for trading systems
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Council of the Indies
Created to study and make policy for the new world, advise the king, and settle important court cases
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Indentured servitude
Landowner paid to transport, house, and feed a person from Europe. They would work for him for 7-14 years
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Racism
The belief that different races have specific qualities that make them either superior or inferior
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Cassava
Brazilian manihot esculenta, woody shrub spurge family (food)
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Vodun
(Voodoo) blend of Catholicism and other African beliefs
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Viceroyalty
Territories governed by a viceroy
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Inquisition
Institution founded by the Catholic Church to combat heresy (anything that conflicted with Catholicism)
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Protestant work ethic
Encourages hard work, extension of Christian principles / practices
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Quebec
North America | France, trading city (pretty furs)
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Amerindians
Indigenous of the Americas
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Triangle Trade / Great Circuit
Slave trade
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Dahomey
Powerful West African state | - location = Benin

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