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CHAPTER 12The West and the World, 1450-1650
The WestEncounters and Transformations
Levack/Muir/Veldman/Maas
Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
Chapter 12: The West and the World, 1450-1650
Levack et al., The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
I. Europeans in Africa
II. Europeans in the Americas
III. Europeans in Asia
IV. The Beginnings of the Global System
Chapter 12: The West and the World, 1450-1650
Levack et al., The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
I. Europeans in Africa
up to 1500, Europe isolated
After 1500, move out
A. Sub-Saharan Africa before the Europeans
Mali
control of gold caravans
Timbuktu
Mansa (king)
Mansa Musa (1312-1337)
pilgrimage to Mecca, 1324
decline from 1400
Portuguese Post at Elmina, 1482
Ethiopia
Christian
Pope sends delegation, 1316
1439, Council of Florence
increased contact
the Negus
1520's-1530's Muslims invade
Chapter 12: The West and the World, 1450-1650
Levack et al., The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
I. Europeans in Africa
B. European Coastal Voyages
Maghreb: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
Maritime Technology
lateen sails
caravels, from 1450
compass
astrolabe
portolanos
New Colonialism
Settler colonies
e.g. Canaries
Jean de Béthencourt
Plantation colonies
e.g. Cape Verdes, 1460's
slave labor
C. Portuguese
Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460)
Madeira
Chapter 12: The West and the World, 1450-1650
Levack et al., The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
II. Europeans in the Americas
A. Pre-Columbian Americas
Aztec Empire, 1325-1522
Mayas, 300-900
Toltecs, 900-1325
Montezuma I (1440-1469)
Incas
Pacacuti Inca Yupanqui (1438-1471)
empire from c. 1438
Cuzco
Huayna Capac (1493-1525)
Quito
Chapter 12: The West and the World, 1450-1650
Levack et al., The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
II. Europeans in the Americas
B. Mission
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
four voyages: 1492, 1493, 1498, 1502
1493, Papal Line of Demarcation
1494, Treaty of Tordesillas
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)
Bartholomew Diaz (c.1450-1500)
Cape of Good Hope
Vasco de Gama (c.1460-1524)
1497-1499, Lisbon to India
Ferdinand Magellan (c.1480-1521)
1519-1522, circumnavigation
C. The Fall of the Aztec and Incan Empires
Conquistadores
Requerimiento
The Conquest of Mexico
Hernán Cortés (1485-1547)
by 1522, New Spain established
Peru
Francisco Pizarro (c.1478-1541)
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519)
1533, executes Atahualpa
D. Spanish America
Mestizos
Encomienda system
Haciendas
Chapter 12: The West and the World, 1450-1650
Levack et al., The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
II. Europeans in the Americas
E. Portuguese Brazil
1500, Pedro Cabral claims Brazil
1532, Portuguese plans to exploit Brazil
sugar
1575, trading post in Angola
export slaves
F. North America
cod fisheries
John Cabot (c.1450-c.1498)
1497, lands in North America
Northwest Passage
Giovanni da Verrazano (c.1485-1557)
1524, sent by French
explores North American coast
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
1534, St. Lawrence River
1616, William Baffin
no Northwest Passage
John Hawkins, Francis Drake (c.1543-1596)
Chapter 12: The West and the World, 1450-1650
Levack et al., The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
III. Europeans in Asia
Asia Before the European Empires
Ming China (1368-1644)
The Trading Post Empires
Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499
Portuguese
Trading posts
factors, factories
Missionary activities
Chapter 12: The West and the World, 1450-1650
Levack et al., The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007
IV. The Beginnings of the Global System
A. The Columbian Exchange
Slave trade
Biological Exchanges
smallpox, typhus, measles, scarlet fever, chicken pox, (syphilis?)
tobacco, cocoa, paprika, pumpkins, beans, corn, potatoes
B. AttitudeUtopian innocents or savages?
Bartolomeo de Las Casas (1474-1566)
The Brief Relation of the Destruction of the West Indies, 1542
Peter Martyr D'Anghiera (1457-1526)
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
C. Global Economy
