An Age of Explorations and Isolation ch 3 unit 1x
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Unit 1- Connecting Hemispheres
Background
By 1400, Europeans were ready to
venture beyond their borders
Renaissance encouraged a new
spirit of adventure and curiosity
Printing press spread ideas and
new maps and charts
Why Expand: God, Gold and Glory
Desire to find new trade routes
Europeans want “luxury items”: spices, silks, etc.
European nations wanted to break the Muslim World and the
Italian control over this trade
Felt it was their duty to Christianize others
New Technologies
• Caravel: stronger, sturdier ship with triangular sails
(adopted from Arabs); made it possible to sail against
the wind
• Astrolabe: brass circle w/ carefully
adjusted rings marked off in
degrees; used to calculate latitude
(perfected by Muslims)
• Compass: magnetically tracked
direction (Chinese invention)
Portugal leads the way
Portugal was 1st to
establish trading
outposts along the
west coast of Africa
Prince Henry of
Portugal- Henry the
Navigator
1419: Founded a
navigation school
Portuguese Navigators
Bartolomeu Dias
1488 Sailed down west coast of Africa
where he reached the tip
Huge storm arose, battered ships; realized his ships were blown
around the tip
Explored SE coast but crew was exhausted so they returned home
Vasco da Gama
14978-98 began exploring east African coast
Reached Calicut (SW coast of India)
Returned to Portugal where their cargo sold for 60 times more
than cost of the voyage
Da Gama’s voyage of 27,000 miles gave Portugal a direct sea route to
India
Spanish Explorer- Christopher
Columbus
1492 makes voyage for Spain (although he was from Genoa)
to find a trade route to Asia by sailing west across the
Atlantic Ocean
October 1492: landed on a Caribbean Island which he
mistook for the East Indies
Immediate impact of Columbus: Increased tension between
Spain and Portugal.
Tensions!!!
• To ease tensions Pope Alexander VI drew the Line of
Demarcation: imaginary North/South line that gave
lands on the east to Portugal (light green) and the lands
on the west to Spain
• 1494 Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas
where they agreed to honor the line.
Jigsaw: Trading Empires in the
Indian Ocean
Each group will receive one of the European countries that
were attempting to establish trade empires in the Indian
Ocean.
Portugal
Spain
Britain (England)
Dutch Republic (Netherlands)
France
In your graphic organizer note when they came to the area,
where they went, what they established
Raise your hand and I will check your organizer
When time to work is up each group will receive one
person from each group so you can all finish your organizer
Trading Empires in the Indian Ocean
Portugal
Built huge trading empire by
capturing many Muslim
owned lands (w/ help from
cannons mounted on their
ships)
(Straits of Hormuz, Goa,
Strait of Malacca, Spice
Islands)
By capturing these Muslim owned
lands, the Portuguese broke
the Italian-Muslim
domination of trade and sold
goods at 1/5 the cost.
Continued…
Spain
1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines
Spain begins settling there in 1565
England and the Dutch Republic (Netherlands)
1600 they began to challenge Portugal
Dutch owned the largest fleet of ships with 20,000 vessels
Both formed East India Company to establish and direct trade
throughout Asia. Also could mint money, make treaties, and
raise armies.
Dutch: take Java, Malacca, Spice Islands-throughout 1600s take
over trade; by 1700 controlled Cape of Good Hope
England: by 1700 focus on India
France: est. an EIC, has post in India by the 1720s
How did technology enable
Europeans to explore the world?
Ming Dynasty 1368-1644
Hongwu (peasant) drove
Mongols out of China became
emperor
Reforms: restore war-torn
farmlands, erase traces of
Mongols, return to Confucian
morals, restore merit based
civil service tests
Yonglo (son) becomes emperor
1402-1424 (capital Beijing)
1405 launched 1st of 7 sea
voyages of exploration
Wants trade and tribute
Voyages of Zheng He
7 voyages
Went to west coast of Africa and throughout Southeast Asia
Gave gifts to people to show Chinese superiority
16 countries sent back tribute
After 7th in 1433 voyages end, China isolates themselves and
fights Northern “barbarians”
Relations with Foreigners
Only gov’t could conduct foreign trade and only through 3
ports: Canton, Macao, Ningbo
However smuggling took place- foreigners paid with silver
Result- Chinese manufacturing increases but no major
industrialization
Why?
Commerce offended Confucian principles
Most favored agriculture/ taxes high on manufactured goods
Missionaries came- bring Christianity and knowledge of
science
Matteo Ricci (Jesuit)
Qing Dynasty
Founded by Manchus from Manchuria
1644- overthrew Ming
Ended rebellions by enforcing
Confucian ideas, making China safe
and increasing prosperity of the people
1661 Kangxi becomes emperor until
1722
Reduced gov’t spending and taxation,
patron of the arts, had Jesuits and
intellectuals at court
His grandson Qian-long (1736-1795)
increased China to its greatest size
Qing Continued Isolation
Saw China as the center of the universe
•
If foreigners wanted to trade, they had to follow the
Chinese rules
Special ports, tribute, and kowtow
Dutch followed the rules
Dutch returned w/ many
trade items including a new
one…TEA. By 1800 tea made up 80% of shipments to Europe
British wanted to trade, but didn’t like the rules
1793 Lord Macartney of England delivered a letter from the king
asking for better arrangements- Qian-long declined
Leads to problems later…
•
Ming/Qing controlled Korea
Vassal state
Paid tribute
Isolated
Adopted many Chinese
cultural ideas:
Confucian values,
Chinese technology
Chinese rule increased
Korean nationalism
Life in Ming/Qing China
Food production increased under Qing=population
explosion
Females not valued- sometimes killed
Work the fields, educate kids, manage $, some midwives
and textile workers
Cultural dvlpmts Traditional crafts
Dramas of history and heroes
Leads to unity/understood by people who can’t read
Why do you think the Ming and Qing
dynasties chose to isolate China from
Europe?
How did they do so?
Establishment of the Emperor
Earliest Japanese society was structured by clans; by
400 AD several clans merge and headed by the Tenno
clan establish the 1st and only dynasty; present
emperor claims descendant of this clan
Emperor
Jimmu
Emperor
Akihito
Samurai!!!
1100s emperor’s power weaken, noble
families control their own areas by using
the samurai
warrior knights
System of feudalism emerges
Local rulers oversee their area but are
bound to higher lords who in turn are
bound to the emperor
1192 emperor gives the title of shogun to
the most powerful samurai
Chief general of the army
Rise of the Shogunate
1467-1568 “Warring States” period, constant state of war;
strong military leaders manage to unify Japan by 1590s
Oda Nobunaga-powerful daimyo takes control of the
country
Greatest samurai, feudal landlord
Emperor becomes a figurehead
Tries to eliminate enemies- 1575: 3000 soldiers w/ muskets
crush a samurai calvary-1st time muskets were used effectively
in a Japanese battle
Nobunaga was not able to unify Japan; commits seppuku
Ritual suicide
Toyotomi Hideyoshi takes over by 1590 unites most of
Japan, 1592 invades Korea, dies 1598 and Japan w/d from
Korea
Tokugawa Shogunate Unites Japan
1600 Tokugawa shogunate est. by Tokugawa Ieyasu,
lasts till 1868
Makes Edo (present day- Tokyo) capital
Feudal classes left alone, but the daimyo are held
virtually hostage to the shogun
Greatest samurai, feudal landlord
Daimyo have “alternate attendance policy”
Under the Tokugawa Japan will enter a period of
Isolationism
Isolation
Shipwrecked sailors from Portugal (1543) welcomed;
merchants come after
Japanese interest in guns, tobacco, clocks, et
Missionaries arrive 1549
1st led by Jesuit: Francis Xavier
By 1600 converted 300,000- upsets Ieyasu
1612 bans Christianity- fear of religious uprising
Ieyasu dies 1616; uprising 1637 by 30,000 peasants blamed on
Christians
1639- Closed Country Policy
One port open- Nagasaki (only to Dutch and Chinese)
Life in Tokugawa Japan
Food increased= pop. Increase
Due to stability and isolation
Most were peasants- 4/5th : life was hard
Confucian ideas- ideal society is agricultural
Mid 1700s- people move from rural to urban areas
Women had jobs in entertainment, textiles, publishing; most
still at home
Culture Traditional and changing in the cities
Haiku: 5-7-5 syllable, 3 line poem (images rather than ideas)
Kabuki- very dramatic theater
SHOGUN
(Military
Ruler)
DAIMYO
(Lord)
SAMURAI
(Warriors)
FARMERS
ARITSANS & MERCHANTS