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Chapter 2

Chapter 2. The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe, Africa, and Asia 1415-1796. The Search for Spices. The Moluccas p. 85. Class activity p. 85-89. What was Prince Henry objectives? What is a cartographer? Who was Vasco da Gama

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Chapter 2

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  1. Chapter 2 The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe, Africa, and Asia 1415-1796

  2. The Search for Spices

  3. The Moluccas p. 85

  4. Class activity p. 85-89 • What was Prince Henry objectives? • What is a cartographer? • Who was Vasco da Gama • How did Portuguese exploration lead to the creating of a trading empire? • Summarize the story of Christopher Columbus and when did he come to the Americas. • Explain what the Treaty of Tordesillas was • What is Ferdinand Magellan’s story? • What is circumnavigate?

  5. Section 2 Turbulent Centuries in Africa p. 90-94

  6. Portuguese forts • Mombasa • Malindi • Purpose • Collecting food • Trade tools, cloth, ivory, hides, slaves, etc.

  7. African Slave Trade Explodes • Slave = Slavs taken from Southern Russia to work in Roman times • Europeans enter the Slave Trade • Plantations

  8. p. 91 • Primary Source

  9. African Leaders Resist • Affonso I king of Kongo • Taught by missionaries • Opposed slavery • Read letter p. 94

  10. African Leaders Resist • Futa Toro • Find it on the map p. 92 • Almany opposed

  11. The Asante Kingdom • Osei Tutu • Unified the kingdom • Claimed his right to rule from heaven • Officials by merit rather than birth

  12. The Oyo Empire • Present day Nigeria • Benefited from slave trade

  13. Cape Town • See map on p. 92 • Boers • Dutch farmers

  14. Encounters in East Asia Section 4 (p. 99-103)

  15. Ming China • “Our empire owns the world”

  16. Macao (p. 101) • Portuguese trading post • Later • Dutch, English • Supervised trade • Payments with gold and silver only

  17. Christian missionaries in China • Matteo Ricci • Jesuit • Contributions • Geography • Mathematics • Philosophy • Other scientific topics

  18. The Manchu Conquest (1644) • Manchuria • Northeast • The Great Wall • Fall of the Ming Dynasty • Beginning of the Qing Dynasty

  19. Qing Dynasty • Confucian system of government • Supported by Chinese scholars • Kangxi • Qianlong • Expanded China’s borders • Retired after 60 years

  20. Peace and Prosperity • Chinese economy expanded • New crops from the Americas • Corn and potatoes • Population boom • 140 million (1740) to 300 million (1800) • Silk, cotton, porcelain industries expanded • internally and internationally

  21. Rejecting contact with Europeans • Restricting foreign trade • Lord Macartney • Head of a British diplomatic mission • Brought samples of British-made goods • Chinese saw them as crude products and gifts to the emperor. • Insisted on an audience with the emperor • Kowtow (touching head to the ground). • Spoke of natural superiority of the English.

  22. Korea and Japan • Korea chooses isolation • Foreign Trades in Japan • Welcomed first • Christian converts • Expelled

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