Portugese:
-penetrate Indian Ocean (traded pepper with India) -Direct contact w. Thailand & China and later Japan -Used force to compel unwilling partners to trade w/them, Esp "Spice Islands (Indonesia) -Main business of the Portuguese was to participate as shippers and traders in the existing commerce of Asia, along traditional routes.
Japan:
-Japan vs China -
Dutch:
-Joint stock company created by Jan van Linschoten as opportunities of trade with Asia. -Carriers of Europe's Asian trade replacing the Portuguese.
land Empires: Russia china Mughal india, ottomans
Russia:
China:
Mughal India-(mongol)
Ottomans: (Turkey) most effective empire builders the world had ever known. -3 universalist traditions: one from their stepladder ancestors, whose aim was to make the limits of their empire match those of the sky another from islam, whose caliphs legacy and title the Ottoman sultans claimed; and a third from ancient Rome, whose legacy wrenched into their own grasp by conquering much former roman imperial territory.
New Land Empires in the Americas
History 15 Notes 10/3
European Impact on the World 1. Native Americans: Eliminated, Marginated. 2. Everyone affected because of European expansion 3. Divided into Two Ages: ⁃ Age of Colonials 15th-18th Century ⁃ Portuguese, later Spanish and even Russian, Then Dutch, English, French ⁃ Search for Luxury Goods: Porcelain, Silk, ⁃ Colonialism is based on private enterprise. (Gov. paid very little) ⁃ Based on taxation. (profitable) ⁃ Religious Superiority ⁃ Imperialism late 18th, 19th and 20th ⁃ England, France, Russia but new countries Germany, Italy, Belgium, Japan, and United States ⁃ Cost money, compared to Colonials ⁃ Cause of Imperialism (economically) very different. Not luxury, but search for European made goods. + search for raw goods to for Industry ⁃ Justification is different.