Unit 3 Flashcards
Where is Cape Coast Castle located?
Ghana
What was another name given to the Cape Coast Castle?
The gate of no return
Forms of commerce significant between 1450 and 1750
1 Europe joined spice trade
2 Silver went from Spanish mines to China
3 Furs from North America/ Siberia got to Europe
Where did the spice trade take place?
Indian Ocean
Commerce and Empires…
Were the twin drivers of globalization
Europes Empires in the new world were an accident thanks to
Christopher Columbus
Examples of Asian spices
Cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper
Main Chinese product
Silk
Main product in India
Cotton
European population in 15 century recovering from
The Black Death
Chinese gunpowder created during…
Song Dynasty
Christian monarch
Prester John
Asian spices were bought with…
Gold and silver
Order in which they got to Asia
1 Portugal (Vasco da Gamma) 2 Spanish 3 French 4 Dutch 5 British
In what year was the fall of Constantinople
1452/3
Portuguese created “trading post Empire”
Control of commerce, not huge populations and using force instead of economic competition.
Spains first move to catch up Portugal
The Philippine Islands (King Philip II)
Who discovered the Philippine Islands?
Ferdinand Magellan (Spanish)
Philippines thriving colonial capital
Manila
Philippines 1693 conflict between
Spain China
How many Chinese people did the Spanish kill?
20,000
Dutch English joined Indian Ocean trade in..
Early 1600s
Dutch focused on
Indonesia
British focused on
India
Dutch way
Bloody methods
Simply took over places (Banda Islands)
Left native people ruined
How many settlements did the British establish in India?
3
British had to deal with
Mughal Empire
British way
Worked with the Mughal
Wanted Indian cotton textiles
When did the British and the Dutch Empires went down?
Mid-1700s
Japan’s shogun in 1600s
Tokugawa
For how many years was Japan closed off tomEurope’s commerce?
200 years
Discovery of silver. Which places
Bolivia and Japan
Chinese instituted a tax payed in…
Silver
Silver drain
Europe took America’s
Used to buy spices and other goods
Sometimes African slaves
Spanish coin used as medium of exchange worldwide
Piece of eight
Largest city in Americas and Bolivian silver mine
Potosi
The way natives called potosi
Portrait of hell
Europeans were… taking from the Americas to Asia
Middlemen
North a,Erica fur in grand demand thanks to
Little ice age 1500s
Between 1500 and 1866 amount of slaves sold
12 million
Name to the Atlantic path for slaves
Middle passage
Slavery became a metaphor for…
Any social oppression
Africans were
Good farmers
Had immunity to some diseases
Not christians
The exploitation of Africans goes back to
The European racial stereotypes
Europeans didn’t want to go center African because of
Diseases
African sellers wanted
Textiles, firearms, gunpowder, tobacco, alcohol, beads
