Vasco da Gama and the First Globalisation 1498

Question 1

Why is 1498 symbolic?

Answer 1

It was the true opening up to the East and so had greater implication for the West.

Question 2

What did Columbus want?

Answer 2

A sea route to India as water was the most efficient means of transport. It was safer than yo go through enemy territory.

Question 3

What did Vasco da Gama do?

Answer 3

He established a secure trading route to India (where there were lots of spices which he bought and sold in EU and got x3000 profit in investment)

Question 4

How long did the ‘da Gama epoch’ take?

Answer 4

Took 2 years

Question 5

What did the da Gama epoch do?

Answer 5

Opened up global networks, integration, interconnection,influence of worldwide systems. The phenomenon predates the introduction of the world.

Question 6

How was the world interdependent/ interconnected?

Answer 6

By disease, goods, animals intellects/beliefs,plants, trade, laborers etc. The movement of people also allowed multicultural and societies began to form

Question 7

Was da gama epoch the first global systems?

Answer 7

Yes because the Ancient/ Med silk routes or Roman/ Mongal Empire were not truly global.

Question 8

Proto- globalization?

Answer 8

Early modern e.g Columbian exchange, international trade.

Interconnection through imperialism also existed.

Question 9

Modern?

Answer 9

More pronounced, e.g internet, trains, telephone.

Question 10

When was water based trade made global?

Answer 10

15-17thc e/g tobacco (America via Sir Walter Rally)

Question 11

When was the ‘columbian exchange’ coined?

Answer 11

In Alfred Crosby 1972 book. It was a exchange between America and Eu/ Old world.

Question 12

What happened with the increase in consumerism?

Answer 12

Eu can receive a wider range and can afford more products. They can shop as a form of leisure, new consumer more possibilities.

Question 13

Ecological impact of animals?

Answer 13

none native species caused environmental damage, soil erosion, deforestation.

Question 14

coffee?

Answer 14

Pope clement V111 – deemed it as ‘satan’s drink’ a drink of ‘infidels’/muslims as it originated in the Ottoman empire.

1645 first recorded EU coffeehouse.
1652 – first English coffee house

Question 15

Public spheres?

Answer 15

Jugen Habermas 1962 –public places becomes very political independent of the private and state. A place for public opinion,
new commodities and a place to influence new social behaviour/ways of thinking. Exchange of ideas.

Question 16

1570-1780 Manila Galleon?

Answer 16

Carries 500 tonnes of mexican silver, taken from mexico to manila to buy silk from china and then took back to EU.

Question 17

How was thew globe framed now?

Answer 17

In terms of the economy. Networks of trade are harder to trace (e.g hard to trace flow of ideas) so easier to look at economics as the records are available, more evidence.

Question 18

Christianity and the wider world?

Answer 18

People without Christianity were a hard question to answer to EU. In turn, they placed them as a lower form of life than EU because the intellectual framework of EU not well equipped to answer such questions. They could only answer through christian perspective, wanted to convert and those who rebel were suppressed.

This resulted in a intellectual consequence including stimulation in debate in EU, recognition by some thinkers that interactions with other cultures could not be done by existing thought, needed new thinking.

Question 19

Is there an e.g of global world system that involves 4 continents, racial/cultural mixing but, result in vast inequalities?

Answer 19

Triangle trade-voyages from eu to be traded in Africa (guns and metal traded for slaves), brought across atlantic to south America for native crops cotton/sugar cane etc)

Question 20

Ws globalization a long process?

Answer 20

Economic, political, culture, integration is a long process. It is unclear at what point change is most rapid, powerful consequence for EU/world history.’