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World Contacts Before Columbus

World Contacts Before Columbus. What was the Afro-Eurasian trading world before Columbus?. Indian Ocean Trading World. The center of pre-Columbian world trade. . Indian Ocean Trading World. Indian Ocean Trading World.

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World Contacts Before Columbus

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  1. World Contacts Before Columbus What was the Afro-Eurasian trading world before Columbus?

  2. Indian Ocean Trading World The center of pre-Columbian world trade.

  3. Indian Ocean Trading World

  4. Indian Ocean Trading World • A “rich commercial world in which mutual self-interest had largely limited violence and attempts to monopolize trade.” (McKay, et al., 9/e, p. 485) • Medieval China had the most advanced economy in the world.

  5. Africa

  6. Africa – Kingdom of Mali Mansa Musa (14th c.) A mosque in Timbuktu

  7. Africa – Legend of Prester John Prester John enthroned on a map of East Africa, in an atlas prepared by the Portuguese for Queen Mary of England, 1558. Prester John’s kingdom in what is now Ethiopia, map issued in Antwerp, 1570s.

  8. The Middle East: Ottoman & Persian Empires

  9. Ottoman Expansion • 1453 – captured Constantinople = end of Byzantine empire • 1526 – defeat of Hungary • 1529 – siege on Vienna

  10. Venice and Genoa • control of luxury trade with the East • support for Crusades brought land & trading privileges • Goods: • Eastern luxury goods: spices, silks, carpets • Balkan slaves • Euro. products: wool, metal, textiles

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